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单词 godwit
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Definition of godwit in English:

godwit

noun ˈɡɒdwɪtˈɡɑdwɪt
  • A large, long-legged wader with a long, slightly upturned or straight bill, and typically a reddish-brown head and breast in the breeding male.

    Genus Limosa, family Scolopacidae: four species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.
    • In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
    • Many immature avocets spend their first summer after fledging well south of breeding areas, as do immature grey plovers, bar-tailed godwits and knot.
    • Mallards, ring-necked ducks, killdeer, marbled godwits, and peregrine falcons settle in for the fall.
    • ‘We call this lazy birding,’ says Clarke, pointing out the thousands of brown and white pelicans, the curlews, godwits, and avocets around us.

Origin

Mid 16th century: of unknown origin.

 
 

Definition of godwit in US English:

godwit

nounˈɡɑdwɪtˈɡädwit
  • A large, long-legged wader with a long, slightly upturned or straight bill, and typically a reddish-brown head and breast in the breeding male.

    Genus Limosa, family Scolopacidae: four species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.
    • Mallards, ring-necked ducks, killdeer, marbled godwits, and peregrine falcons settle in for the fall.
    • In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
    • Many immature avocets spend their first summer after fledging well south of breeding areas, as do immature grey plovers, bar-tailed godwits and knot.
    • ‘We call this lazy birding,’ says Clarke, pointing out the thousands of brown and white pelicans, the curlews, godwits, and avocets around us.

Origin

Mid 16th century: of unknown origin.

 
 
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