单词 | blue wren |
释义 | > as lemmasblue wren blue wren n. Australian any of several fairy wrens (family Maluridae) with males that are predominantly blue in colour; esp. the superb fairy wren, Malurus cyaneus, and the splendid fairy wren, M. splendens. ΚΠ 1836 Eng. Ann. 190 The skies were as blue as if a cloud had never crossed their surface; the violet-winged parrots, the blue wren, and the diamond bird flitted in the air. 1892 ‘Mrs A. Macleod’ Silent Sea I. 97 Here she loved to watch the little blue wrens taking their feeble flight from one tussock of grass to another. 1948 P. J. Hurley Red Cedar 32 Birds of all kinds found this sanctuary..piping spinebills, pretty trilling blue-wrens. 2010 J. Francis Cloudehill 44 Groups of splendid blue wrens regularly shrilled and chattered from the prickly moses wattle. < as lemmas |
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