pewit
英 ['piːwɪt]
美['piwɪt]
- n. 田凫；（欧洲）黑头红嘴鸥
英英释义
- 1. small black-headed European gull
- 2. large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
- 3. small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
英文词源
- pewit (n.)
- "lapwing" (still the usual name for it in Scotland), 1520s, imitative of its cry (compare Flemish piewit-voghel, Middle Low German kivit, German kiwitz; also see kibitz).