英语词汇“common potoo”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Any of several nocturnal, insectivorous tropical American birds constituting the genus Nyctibius (family Nyctibiidae), which are related to nightjars and adopt a motionless upright posture, mimicking a dead branch, when resting; esp. (more fully common potoo, grey potoo) N. griseus.

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1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 42 The Potoo is not unfrequently seen in the evening..soon after sunset on some dead tree or fence-post, or floating by on noiseless wing, like an owl.

1890 Catholic World Jan. 508 From a neighboring tree a potoo gave one of its loud, hoarse ho-hoos, followed by a lower note from the depths of the throat.

1959 A. Portmann Animal Camouflage ii. 54 The American nightjar.., popularly called the poor-me-one, or common potoo.., is well known for its doleful song and its excellent disguise.

1980 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 11 202 Potoos, some frogmouths, and various passerines lay one-egg clutches.

1996 Independent (Nexis) 8 Sept. 13 Your pottoo is a bird, rather like a vast scruffy night-jar, with its huge mouth agape for a passing gnat.

单词	common potoo
释义	> as lemmas common potoo Any of several nocturnal, insectivorous tropical American birds constituting the genus Nyctibius (family Nyctibiidae), which are related to nightjars and adopt a motionless upright posture, mimicking a dead branch, when resting; esp. (more fully common potoo, grey potoo) N. griseus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Nyctibiidae (potoo) potoo1847 1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 42 The Potoo is not unfrequently seen in the evening..soon after sunset on some dead tree or fence-post, or floating by on noiseless wing, like an owl. 1890 Catholic World Jan. 508 From a neighboring tree a potoo gave one of its loud, hoarse ho-hoos, followed by a lower note from the depths of the throat. 1959 A. Portmann Animal Camouflage ii. 54 The American nightjar.., popularly called the poor-me-one, or common potoo.., is well known for its doleful song and its excellent disguise. 1980 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 11 202 Potoos, some frogmouths, and various passerines lay one-egg clutches. 1996 Independent (Nexis) 8 Sept. 13 Your pottoo is a bird, rather like a vast scruffy night-jar, with its huge mouth agape for a passing gnat. extracted from potoon. < as lemmas
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