| 单词 |
pinc-pinc |
| 释义 |
pinc-pinc|ˈpɪŋkpɪŋk| [Echoic, from the bird's note.] A name given to a South-African warbler (Drymœca or Cisticola textrix), to which has been erroneously attributed the building of the remarkable double nest of the Cotton-bird (ægithalus capensis).
1868Wood Homes without H. xii. 217 The Pinc-pinc of Africa..has a similar custom, constructing a supplementary roosting-place upon the nest. 1894Newton Dict. Birds, Pinc-pinc (or rather ‘Tinc-tinc’), the name which a South-African bird..has given itself from its ringing metallic cry. |
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