lyrebird

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus Menura, named because of the beautiful tail feathers of the male of one species, the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which can be erected to look like a lyre, and notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.
    — A lyrebird strolled past me on its large feet, among the granite boulders.

词形变化

lyrebirds plural

词源

From lyre + bird.
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