crake

n. 秧鸡, 秧鸡的啼声

发音

其它 /ˈkɹeɪk/

词形变化

crakes 复数 crakes 三单 craking 现在分词 craked 过去式 craked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

  2. 1.

    A crack; a boast.

    废旧
v.
  1. 1.

    To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

  2. 1.

    To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

rail

下位词 3

corncrake landrail spotted crake

相关短语

Colombian crake uniform crake African crake paint-billed crake ocellated crake corn crake Laysan crake spotless crake Andaman crake Baillon's crake banded crake slaty-legged crake ash-throated crake black crake Ascension crake

词源

From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.

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