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.
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1.
A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
鹳
鹳鸟
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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.
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3.
The seventeenth Lenormand card.
宗教 哲学
词汇关系
相关短语
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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