| 单词 | tinkerbird |
| 释义 | > as lemmastinkerbird tinkerbird n. South African East African any of several small African barbets of the genus Pogoniulus (family Lybiidae), having a call that sounds like repetitive hammering. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Capitonidae (barbet) > genus Pogoniulus (tinker-bird) tinkerbird1864 tinktinkie1874 1864 Ibis 6 353 Little Tinker Barbet... The note of this curious little bird so much resembles the tapping of a hammer on an anvil (having that peculiar metallic ring), that it is called in Natal the Tinker-bird. 1960 G. Durrell Zoo in my Luggage 12 A tinker-bird was giving its monotonous cry, toink..toink..toink.., like someone beating forever on a tiny anvil. 2013 Tanzania Daily News (Nexis) 17 Mar. In the bush beyond we heard tinkerbirds (tonk tonk tonk) and cameropteras..(pyeek pyeek pyeek pyeek). < as lemmas |
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