| 释义 |
osprey/ˈɒspri, -prei/n. (pl. -eys) 1 a large bird of prey, Pandion haliaetus, with a brown back and white markings, feeding on fish also called 亦称作 fish-hawk 鹗(体大，背褐色，有白色印记，以鱼为食)2 a plume on a woman's hat (妇女帽子上的)鸟羽 [Middle English from Old French ospres, apparently ultimately from Latin ossifraga ‘lammergeyer, osprey’ from os ‘bone’ + frangere ‘break’, probably referring to the lammergeyer's habit of dropping bones from a height in order to break them and get at the marrow] |