Definition of nightjar in English:

nightjar

noun ˈnʌɪtdʒɑːˈnaɪtˌdʒɑr

A nocturnal insectivorous bird with grey-brown camouflaged plumage, large eyes and gape, and a distinctive call.
夜鹰
Family Caprimulgidae (the nightjar family): several genera, especially Caprimulgus, and many species, including the European nightjar (C. europaeus), which has a chirring call. The nightjar family also includes the nighthawks, pauraques, poorwills, whippoorwills, and chuck-will's-widow
Example sentencesExamples
- The classification we use recognizes three distinct orders for owls, falcons, and nightjars.
- My encounters with that mysterious bird, the nightjar, have been few and are perhaps the more memorable for that.
- The nocturnal owls, nightjars, and allies often are poorly known, and very few species have been studied in detail.
- Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
- We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.

Definition of nightjar in US English:

nightjar

nounˈnītˌjärˈnaɪtˌdʒɑr

A nocturnal insectivorous bird with gray-brown camouflaged plumage, large eyes and gape, and a distinctive call.
夜鹰
Family Caprimulgidae (the nightjar family): several genera, especially Caprimulgus, and many species, including the European nightjar (C. europaeus), which has a chirring call. The nightjar family also includes the nighthawks, pauraques, poor-wills, whippoorwills, and chuck-will's-widow
Also called goatsucker
Example sentencesExamples
- My encounters with that mysterious bird, the nightjar, have been few and are perhaps the more memorable for that.
- Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
- We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.
- The nocturnal owls, nightjars, and allies often are poorly known, and very few species have been studied in detail.
- The classification we use recognizes three distinct orders for owls, falcons, and nightjars.

单词	nightjar
释义	Definition of nightjar in English: nightjar noun ˈnʌɪtdʒɑːˈnaɪtˌdʒɑr A nocturnal insectivorous bird with grey-brown camouflaged plumage, large eyes and gape, and a distinctive call. 夜鹰 Family Caprimulgidae (the nightjar family): several genera, especially Caprimulgus, and many species, including the European nightjar (C. europaeus), which has a chirring call. The nightjar family also includes the nighthawks, pauraques, poorwills, whippoorwills, and chuck-will's-widow Example sentencesExamples The classification we use recognizes three distinct orders for owls, falcons, and nightjars. My encounters with that mysterious bird, the nightjar, have been few and are perhaps the more memorable for that. The nocturnal owls, nightjars, and allies often are poorly known, and very few species have been studied in detail. Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen. We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird. Definition of nightjar in US English: nightjar nounˈnītˌjärˈnaɪtˌdʒɑr A nocturnal insectivorous bird with gray-brown camouflaged plumage, large eyes and gape, and a distinctive call. 夜鹰 Family Caprimulgidae (the nightjar family): several genera, especially Caprimulgus, and many species, including the European nightjar (C. europaeus), which has a chirring call. The nightjar family also includes the nighthawks, pauraques, poor-wills, whippoorwills, and chuck-will's-widow Also called goatsucker Example sentencesExamples My encounters with that mysterious bird, the nightjar, have been few and are perhaps the more memorable for that. Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen. We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird. The nocturnal owls, nightjars, and allies often are poorly known, and very few species have been studied in detail. The classification we use recognizes three distinct orders for owls, falcons, and nightjars.
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