| 单词 | lyrebird |
| 释义 | lyre /līr/nounA musical instrument like the harp, used esp in ancient Greece as an accompaniment to poetry, consisting of a convex resonating box with a pair of curved arms connected by a crossbar, from which the strings were stretched over a bridge to a tailpiece ORIGIN: L lyra, from Gr lyrā Lyˈra noun (astronomy) One of the northern constellations lyˈrate or lyˈrated adjective
lyˈra-way or lyˈra-wise adverb According to lute tablature lyric /lirˈ/ adjective
lyrical /lirˈ/ adjective
lyrˈically adverb lyricism /lirˈi-sizm/ noun
lyrˈicist noun
lyrˈicon noun An electronic wind instrument like a large flute (but played like a clarinet), used with a synthesizer lyriform /līˈ/ adjective Shaped like a lyre lyrˈism /līrˈ or lirˈ/ noun
lyrist /līrˈ or lirˈ/ noun
lyˈra-viˈol or lyra viol noun An obsolete instrument like a viola da gamba adapted for playing from lute tablature lyreˈbird noun Either of two Australian passerine ground-dwelling birds of the genus Menura about the size of a pheasant, the tail feathers of the male arranged, in display, in the form of a lyre lyre guitar noun A form of lyre with a fingerboard, at its greatest popularity in the late 18c and early 19c lyriform organs plural noun (zoology) Patches of well-innervated chitin on the legs and other parts of spiders, believed to act as mechanoreceptors wax lyrical To become increasingly expressive or effusive in praise of something |
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