bird of paradise

短语

极乐鸟

发音

US

词形变化

birds of paradise 复数

别名

bird-of-paradise

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of various passerine birds of the family Paradisaeidae native to Oceania. In many of the species the breeding plumage of the males is brightly coloured.

    极乐鸟

    天堂鸟

    风鸟

  2. 2.

    A showy tropical flower of the genus Strelitzia, native to South Africa.

    鹤望兰

    天堂鸟花

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

poinciana

上位词 2

herb oscine

下位词 1

riflebird

词源

The first Europeans to encounter their skins were the voyagers in Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the Earth. Antonio Pigafetta wrote that "The people told us that those birds came from the terrestrial paradise, and they call them bolon diuata, that is to say, 'birds of God"." "Bolon diuata" appears to be closer to Malay burung (“a bird”) and dewata (“a god”).

来源：wiktionary