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

marsh bird n. (a) any of various birds living in or frequenting marshland; (b) (chiefly in form marshbird) either of two songbirds of the genus Pseudoleistes (family Icteridae) with yellow and brown plumage, found in South American swamps and marshes; (c) (chiefly in form marshbird) any of various brown-streaked warblers of the genus Megalurus (family Sylviidae) found from India through South-East Asia and New Guinea to Australia, esp. M. timoriensis and M. gramineus (also called grassbird).

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1668 Sir T. Browne Let. 29 Dec. A Yarwhelp, Barker, or Latrator a marsh bird about the bignesse of a Godwitt.

1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady ii. 109 Lone marsh-birds winged their misty flight.

1888 P. L. Sclater & W. H. Hudson Argentine Ornithol. I. 102 (heading) Pseudoleistes Virescens (Vieill.). (Yellow-Breasted Marsh-Bird.)

1954 G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure (1965) ii. 38 Five marsh birds, jet-black little birds with dandelion-yellow heads.

1958 N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? (ed. 2) 221 Tawny Marshbird Megalurus timoriensis... Usually in pairs, frequenting reed-beds and rank grass. It is a shy bird, rarely seen.

1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 27 American bittern is a shy, nondescript marsh bird, stocky, mottled brown with black wing tips.

1989 R. S. Ridgely & G. Tudor Birds S. Amer. I. 343 Marshbirds... A pair of rather large, basically brown and yellow icterids of s. South America, bigger than the Agelaius blackbirds often found in the same marshes.

1990 C. M. Perrins Illustr. Encycl. Birds 289/1 The Little Marshbird, or Little Grassbird, is an inconspicuous, furtive denizen of swamp vegetation, where it feeds on a variety of small insects and spiders.

单词	marsh bird
释义	> as lemmas marsh bird marsh bird n. (a) any of various birds living in or frequenting marshland; (b) (chiefly in form marshbird) either of two songbirds of the genus Pseudoleistes (family Icteridae) with yellow and brown plumage, found in South American swamps and marshes; (c) (chiefly in form marshbird) any of various brown-streaked warblers of the genus Megalurus (family Sylviidae) found from India through South-East Asia and New Guinea to Australia, esp. M. timoriensis and M. gramineus (also called grassbird). ΚΠ 1668 Sir T. Browne Let. 29 Dec. A Yarwhelp, Barker, or Latrator a marsh bird about the bignesse of a Godwitt. 1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady ii. 109 Lone marsh-birds winged their misty flight. 1888 P. L. Sclater & W. H. Hudson Argentine Ornithol. I. 102 (heading) Pseudoleistes Virescens (Vieill.). (Yellow-Breasted Marsh-Bird.) 1954 G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure (1965) ii. 38 Five marsh birds, jet-black little birds with dandelion-yellow heads. 1958 N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? (ed. 2) 221 Tawny Marshbird Megalurus timoriensis... Usually in pairs, frequenting reed-beds and rank grass. It is a shy bird, rarely seen. 1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 27 American bittern is a shy, nondescript marsh bird, stocky, mottled brown with black wing tips. 1989 R. S. Ridgely & G. Tudor Birds S. Amer. I. 343 Marshbirds... A pair of rather large, basically brown and yellow icterids of s. South America, bigger than the Agelaius blackbirds often found in the same marshes. 1990 C. M. Perrins Illustr. Encycl. Birds 289/1 The Little Marshbird, or Little Grassbird, is an inconspicuous, furtive denizen of swamp vegetation, where it feeds on a variety of small insects and spiders. extracted from marshn.¹ < as lemmas
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