A small Old World songbird with a ring of white feathers around the eye.
绣眼鸟
Family Zosteropidae: several genera, in particular Zosterops, and numerous species
Example sentencesExamples
Their destruction and subsequent conversion into layouts sounded the death knell for the loras, white-eyes, garblers and fly-catchers.
We proposed on October 3 to list the Rota bridled white-eye, a small forest bird with a distinctive ring of white feathers around its eyes, as an endangered species.
We deal with everything from the smallest white-eye to a black vulture, from hedgehogs to jackals.
Two were doves, two were swiftlets, one was a honeyeater, one was a white-eye.
Found in the Mariana archipelago of the western Pacific, the Rota bridled white-eye exists only on the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Definition of white-eye in US English:
white-eye
nounˈ(h)wīdˌī
A small Old World songbird with a ring of white feathers around the eye.
绣眼鸟
Family Zosteropidae: several genera, in particular Zosterops, and numerous species
Example sentencesExamples
We deal with everything from the smallest white-eye to a black vulture, from hedgehogs to jackals.
Two were doves, two were swiftlets, one was a honeyeater, one was a white-eye.
We proposed on October 3 to list the Rota bridled white-eye, a small forest bird with a distinctive ring of white feathers around its eyes, as an endangered species.
Found in the Mariana archipelago of the western Pacific, the Rota bridled white-eye exists only on the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Their destruction and subsequent conversion into layouts sounded the death knell for the loras, white-eyes, garblers and fly-catchers.