bell miner

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bellbird, a honeyeater of species Manorina melanophrys, endemic to southeastern Australia.
    — One species, the bell miner, is so keen on lerp and so protective of its sources that it fights off all other birds, including the small insectivorous ones that would eat the psyllids.

词形变化

bell miners plural

词源

Originally "bellbird", ornithologically altered to "bell miner" due to membership of the genus Mamorina, which were called "miners" owing to the similarity in appearance of Manorina melanocephala to the Indian myna.
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