| 释义 |
Definition of tree pie in English: tree pienoun A long-tailed tree-dwelling Asian crow, with blackish or brown and grey plumage. Family Corvidae: three genera, in particular Dendrocitta, and several species Example sentencesExamples - This area is abundant in langurs, peafowl, spurfowl, and ubiquitous tree pies.
- Also, two frequent avian guests are the tree pies, with their very conspicuous long tails; and the small, blackish-grey spotted fantails, with their cocky, up-turned tails.
- On the first morning, sitting on the lawns, one watched tree pies and drongos taking the first rays of the sun atop a dried up tree.
- For future reference you can always tell the real tree pie by its distinctive yellow bands.
- The Himalayan tree pie has a black forehead, gray coloration from the crown to the nape, a dark chestnut back and scapulars, and black wings with white specks.
Origin Late 19th century: pie from pie2. |