whistler

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
  2. Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
  3. Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).
    — The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]
  4. A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
  5. A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
  6. A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
  7. An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
  8. A broken-winded horse.
  9. The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen. obsolete,slang

词形变化

whistlers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Baliem whistler bare-throated whistler Biak whistler Bismarck whistler black-chinned whistler black-headed whistler Bornean whistler Bougainville hooded whistler brown-backed whistler brown whistler drab whistler fawn-breasted whistler Fiji whistler Gilbert's whistler golden-backed whistler golden whistler green-backed whistler grey whistler Guadalcanal hooded whistler hooded whistler island whistler Lorentz's whistler Louisiade whistler mangrove golden whistler mangrove whistler maroon-backed whistler New Caledonian whistler olive whistler oriole whistler red-lored whistler regent whistler Rennell whistler rufous whistler rusty-breasted whistler rusty whistler Samoan whistler Sangihe whistler Sclater's whistler sulphur-bellied whistler Temotu whistler Tongan whistler Vanuatu whistler Vogelkop whistler Wallacean whistler western whistler white-breasted whistler white-vented whistler yellow-bellied whistler yellow-throated whistler

词源

From Middle English whisteler, whistlar, whystelare, from Old English hwistlere (“a player on a flute; a piper”), equivalent to whistle + -er.
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