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单词 nightjar
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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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