| 单词 | owl pellet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasowl pellet owl pellet n. a regurgitated pellet of bones, hair, and other indigestible parts of an owl's prey. ΚΠ 1865 Rep. Marlborough Coll. Nat. Hist. Soc. 13 Exhibitions:..Bag made from bark of the birch,..Some owl-pellets, [etc.]. 1899 Amer. Naturalist 33 571 The numerical abundance of our mice and shrews, as deduced from the relative abundance of their remains in owl pellets. 1943 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 62 Joseph Wolf's long-eared owl suggests a morning crawling along the interlacing branches of a young larch plantation in the Highlands in search of middens of owl pellets. 2003 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 25 A trip to the golf course for him isn't complete without the chance to dissect an owl pellet and retrieve the tiny mouse bones therein. < as lemmas |
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