crow
乌鸦,人群,人群中,人群中的
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Definitions
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- : any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- : any of several other birds of the family Corvidae.
- : any of various similar birds of other families.
- : Astronomy. the constellation Corvus.
- : crowbar.
Phrases
- crown jewels
- crow over
- as the crow flies
- eat crow
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Outside, a flock of crows takes off in unison from the branches of an ancient oak.
Almost all young mammals play, as do birds like parrots and crows.
Neuroscientists have become increasingly interested in birds like the crow, which appear to be able to think creatively in ways that mirror human cognition.
It’s the first time that researchers have observed this behavior in snakes, though animals like crows or raccoons eat some toads in a similar fashion.
Some sponsorship contracts are being sold for anything between five to 10 times lower than usual, Crow said.
This mass incarceration is destroying the Black community -- it is, as Michelle Alexander writes, the New Jim Crow.
Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women.
Each working in its own way was essential to ending Jim Crow in the South.
Slowly, still falteringly but inexorably, Jim Crow justice was disappearing in the South.
“It tasted like a crow enchilada,” Morrissey said, as he literally ate his words.
Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.
The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.