crow titとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

crow-tit (plural crow-tits)

1. Any small titlike bird of the family Paradoxornithidae, noted for their curved, parrotlike bills.
   • 1964, Hans Hvass, Birds of the World in Color, page 28:

     The parrotbills or crow-tits, Paradoxornithidae, are a family of small tit-like birds found in Europe and Asia, most in India and South China.

   • 1983, Home-Coming and Other Korean Short Stories, page 101:

     "Nobody says that. But in my opinion, it's better for poor people to act like what they are. A crow tit shouldn't imitate a crane."

   • 1998, Mia Yun, House of the Winds, page 130:

     We swam in the stream, caught locusts and dragon flies, hunted for eggs laid by Korean crow tits in the rice paddies, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:crow-tit.

同意語

• parrotbill

参照

• crow-tit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sylvioidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Sylvioidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons