- 1長腳秧雞
A corncrake is a shy brown bird of and long grass, mainly in Europe. You are much more likely to hear it than to see it. It makes a loud, dry, repeated cry, like two sticks rasping together, often at night. Birdwatchers use the word more than everyday speakers; it is a nature word, a little specialist. The corn in the name is about the fields it lives in, not about the bird eating corn.
組成From corn + crake. A crake is a kind of small, secretive rail — a bird of grass and marsh — named for its croaking call.
同家族的字
- cornthe crop fields this bird lives in
- crakethe group of small rails named for their harsh cry
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
corncrakenoun/ˈkɔːnkɹeɪk/
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A bird of the rail family, Crex crex, that breeds in meadows and arable farmland across Europe and western Asia, migrating to Africa in winter.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。