stork

FREQ #19092

n. 鹳

发音

US /stɔɹk/
UK /stɔːk/

词形变化

storks 复数 storks

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

    鹳鸟

  2. 2.

    The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

    送子鸟

    委婉 艺术 媒体

    My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.

  3. 3.

    The seventeenth Lenormand card.

    宗教 哲学

词汇关系

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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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