| 单词 | house wren |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse wren house wren n. a very small brown North American songbird, Troglodytes aedon (family Troglodytidae). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Troglodytidae > genus Troglodytes > species troglodytes (wren) > other types house wren1791 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina ii. x. 291 M[otacilla]. domestica (regulus rufus) the house wren. 1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 133 The House Wren inhabits the whole of the United States, in all of which it is migratory. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 275 Here the common ‘house’ wren is bleached and faded. 1904 E. Glasgow Deliverance v. i. 442 A half-finished nest which a house-wren had begun to build. 2007 J. L. Gould & C. G. Gould Animal Architects vi. 163 House wrens find hollow cavities in trees and bring sticks, tamping them down until the layer is thick. < as lemmas |
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