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A hornbill is a bird you meet in hot parts of Asia and Africa. What you notice first is the : it is huge, and on many kinds there is an extra lump on top that looks a bit like a horn. They are not tiny garden birds; some are as big as a small turkey. In Taiwan you may know them from the zoo or from nature films, not from the street. The name is simply “horn” plus “bill,” and bill here means a bird’s .
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
hornbillnoun/ˈhɔːn.bɪl/
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Any of various birds of the family Bucerotidae, with bills resembling a cow's horns. Many species have a casque above the bill, and many imprison their young in a tree.
- I saw what they were, hornbills, white head with a black streak of feather on top, a long grey tail, and a huge red beak that curved down, bigger than his head.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。