murmurateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

murmurate (三人称単数 現在形 murmurates, 現在分詞 murmurating, 過去形および過去分詞形 murmurated)

1. (intransitive) Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.
   • 2009, Daniel Butler, The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph:

     By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.

   • 2013, Ruth Bass, Word playing gives birds new nicknames, The Berkshire Eagle:

     There's a glister of goldfinches, an exaltation of larks, a swoop of swallows, a chain of bobolinks, a scold of blue jays, a murmuration of starlings, which are at their best when they murmurate by the hundreds across a gray sky.