单词 | coraciiform bird |
释义 | coraciiform bird (extremely rare) n WORD FAMILY coraciiform bird n chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes Hypo|Hyper roller Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers kingfishernonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish bee eatercolorful chiefly tropical Old World bird having a strong graceful flight; feeds on especially bees hornbillbird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers hoopoe, hoopooany of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill wood hoopoetropical African bird having metallic blackish plumage but no crest momot, motmottropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage todytiny insectivorous West Indian bird having red-and-green plumage and a long straight bill Coracias garrulus, European rollercommon European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back ground rollerMadagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms Alcedo atthis, Eurasian kingfishersmall kingfisher with greenish-blue and orange plumage Ceryle alcyon, belted kingfishergreyish-blue North American kingfisher with a chestnut band on its chest Dacelo gigas, kookaburra, laughing jackassAustralian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry Euopean hoopoe, Upupa epopspinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wings bird warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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