towhee
/tou-hee, toh-hee, toh-ee/US // ˈtaʊ hi, ˈtoʊ hi, ˈtoʊ i //UK // (ˈtaʊhɪ, ˈtəʊ-) //
韬光养晦,韬奋,碉堡,碉楼
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of several long-tailed North American finches of the genera Pipilo and Chlorura.
Examples
He is known by an offensive and inapt title—the green-tailed towhee.
White-eyed Towhee (alleni) has white eyes instead of red and less white on the tail; found on the South Atlantic coast.
His mystery of the black ground-bird with a brown mate was resolved into the Common Towhee.
Two eggs of the cowbird and two or three of the towhee in a nest are common.
The green-tailed towhee he is called in the books, though the red of his head is much more conspicuous than the green of his tail.
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