centzontle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mockingbird. rare
    — He had bought young centzontles and it was Roberto's and Manuel's job to whistle at them until they learned to sing. But the birds picked at the cane and made an opening through which a dozen and a half escaped.

词形变化

centzontles plural centzontlé alternative cenzontli alternative sensonte alternative sinsonte alternative sinsontle alternative

词源

Borrowed from Spanish cenzontle, from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).
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