stork

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /stɔːk/|/stoːk/    美 /stɔɹk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
  2. The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news. euphemistic
    — My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
  3. The seventeenth Lenormand card.

词形变化

storks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
adjutant stork black-necked stork black stork giant stork hair-crested stork maguari stork marabou stork milky stork Oriental stork saddle-billed stork stork-billed stork bite storkish storklike storkling storksbill storkwise storky white stork wood stork
相关词
crane egret heron

词源

From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.
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