单词 | snakebird |
释义 | snakebird (once / 1074483 pages) n WORD FAMILY snakebird: snakebirds USAGE EXAMPLESIts long neck resembles a snake ready to strike when the Anhinga - also called a snakebird - is swimming. Seattle Times(Nov 26, 2011) This is generally called the Snakebird or Water Turkey in Florida, where it is a common species on the more isolated rivers and lakes. Chapman, Frank M., Color Key to North American Birds—w...(2011) Snakebirds and buzzards resort to the same device, but I cannot recall ever seeing any Northern bird thus engaged. Torrey, Bradford, A Florida Sketch-Book(2010) n fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill Syn|Hypo|Hyper anhinga, darter Anhinga anhinga, water turkey blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions pelecaniform seabird large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet |
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