| 单词 | soft meat |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft meat ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > pigeon > food regurgitated by soft meat1725 pigeon's milk1799 soft food1876 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pigeon They cannot be provided with soft Meat in their Crop when the young hatch. 1822 ‘B. Moubray’ Pract. Treat. Poultry (ed. 4) xii. 185 Soft meat is a sort of milky fluid or pap secreted in the craw of pigeons, by the wise providence of nature. 1854 L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry viii. 454 The squab thrusts its bill into the side of the mouth of one of the old birds, which forthwith pumps up the contents of its stomach (called ‘soft meat’, technically) into its own mouth. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 May 3/1 All ‘soft meat birds’ are observant. I mean by soft meat—which is a birdcatchers' term—the feeders on grubs and worms and flies, rather than on seeds. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。