| 单词 | terror bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasterror bird terror bird n. any of various large, extinct, and typically flightless birds of prey, spec. (a) a bird of the genus Gastornis (family Gastornithidae) of the early Tertiary period in Europe and North America; (b) a member of the family Phorusrhacidae, found mainly in South America in the later Tertiary period. ΚΠ 1925 C. F. Lummis Mesa, Cañon & Pueblo vii. 97 That super-condor, the teratornis, ‘terror bird’—with a fourteen-foot spread of wings. 1941 Sci. News Let. 4 Jan. 7/1 (caption) The modern eagle skeleton at the right will give you an idea of how huge was the five-foot-tall flightless terror bird that stalked through South America. 1992 D. G. Campbell Crystal Desert ii. 50 These are probably the tracks of the so-called terror bird, a flightless, fast running relative of the cranes and rails that stood three and a half meters tall. 2008 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Mar. 38 The CGI mammoths and terror birds look spectacular on the big screen. < as lemmas |
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