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单词 beccafico
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Definition of beccafico in US English:

beccafico

nounPlural beccaficos ˌbekəˈfēkōˌbɛkəˈfikoʊˌbɛkəˈfikoʊ
  • A European songbird, especially a warbler, eaten as a delicacy.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The beccafico, however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, and on this account was preferred by some sensitive tastes to the ortolan.
    • The birds must be taken alive; once captured they are either blinded or kept in a lightless box for a month to gorge on millet, grapes, and figs, a technique apparently taken from the decadent cooks of Imperial Rome who called the birds beccafico, or ‘fig-pecker’.
    • In the 15th and 16th centuries, Venetian literature mentions the beccaficos, literally translated as the fig-pecker.
    • The dish is named for the beccafico, a bird that eats ripe figs and is therefore considered a gourmand.

Origin

Italian.

Definition of beccafico in US English:

beccafico

nounˌbekəˈfēkōˌbɛkəˈfikoʊ
  • A European songbird, especially a warbler, eaten as a delicacy.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The birds must be taken alive; once captured they are either blinded or kept in a lightless box for a month to gorge on millet, grapes, and figs, a technique apparently taken from the decadent cooks of Imperial Rome who called the birds beccafico, or ‘fig-pecker’.
    • The dish is named for the beccafico, a bird that eats ripe figs and is therefore considered a gourmand.
    • In the 15th and 16th centuries, Venetian literature mentions the beccaficos, literally translated as the fig-pecker.
    • The beccafico, however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, and on this account was preferred by some sensitive tastes to the ortolan.

Origin

Italian.

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