| 单词 | red-chested cuckoo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-chested cuckoo red-chested cuckoo n. an African cuckoo, Cuculus solitarius, whose distinctive three-note call is regarded as a harbinger of spring in South Africa, and which is a brood parasite of thrushes, robins, and chats; cf. piet-my-vrou n. ΚΠ 1905 W. L. Sclater in W. Flint & J. D. F. Gilchrist Sci. in S. Afr. 141 The Red-chested Cuckoo (C. solitarius) called the ‘Piet myn Vrouw’ by the Dutch from its voice, which consists of three clear notes in the descending chromatic scale. 1971 K. B. Newman Birdlife in S. Afr. (1979) 178 The Red-chested Cuckoo..is a common and vociferous summer visitor to Southern Africa. 2001 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 268 565 We measured museum collections of eggs of the red-chested cuckoo and its hosts. < as lemmas |
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