| 单词 | nightjar |
| 释义 | nightjar (once / 63545 pages) n WORD FAMILY nightjar: nightjars USAGE EXAMPLES“She lives with Miss Nightjar now. Miss Nightjar and Miss Thrush take all the hard cases.” Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar...(2011) There are lots of other rare species too - the Siberian rubythroat is very rare here, and there are nightjars. BBC(Jan 09, 2016) Nightjar, a reservation-only speakeasy in East London, sends drinks out in vessels shaped like owls and top hats. New York Times(Sep 08, 2014) n mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects Syn|Hypo|Hyper caprimulgid, goatsucker Caprimulgus europaeus, European goatsucker, European nightjar Old World goatsucker Caprimulgus carolinensis, chuck-will's-widowlarge whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States Caprimulgus vociferus, whippoorwillAmerican nocturnal goatsucker with grey-and-white plumage bullbat, mosquito hawk, nighthawkmainly nocturnal North American goatsucker Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, poorwillgoatsucker of western North America caprimulgiform bird long-winged nonpasserine birds |
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