| 词汇 | cassowary |
| 释义 | cassowary noun[ C ] uk /ˈkæs.ə.weə.ri/ us /ˈkæs.ə.wer.i/ a very large bird that cannot fly. It is similar to an emu and is found mainly in New Guinea.鹤鸵（主要生长在新几内亚） Patrick_Gijsbers/ iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Other wild birds bird of paradise blackbird blue tit bluebird bluejay goldfinch greenfinch honeyeater hoopoe hornbill magpie martin mockingbird mynah nighthawk sparrow squab starling swift swiftlet Examples of cassowarycassowary The few avian frugivores that forage on the ground leave obvious marks (catbird, tooth-billed bowerbird) or ingest fruit whole (cassowary). Fruits of this species are too large to be swallowed by birds other than cassowaries. Why is the cassowary not a bird? However, this study has shown that musky rat-kangaroos consume and carry fruits of all sizes, particularly the larger ones, which are not well dispersed by other frugivores except cassowaries. Additionally, unripe fruits should be generally unattractive to canopy foraging frugivores such as flying foxes which likely represent low-quality dispersal opportunities for t he tree relative to cassowaries. He bought cassowaries over the next 10 years, and two arrived every six months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ratites are large flightless birds, and include ostriches, rheas, cassowaries, kiwis and emus. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Among them there are jaguars, cassowaries, monkeys, sloths, chimpanzees and orangutans. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Birds include two species of cassowary, 31 dove and pigeon species, 31 species of cockatoo, 13 species of kingfisher and 29 species of sunbird. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. All cassowaries have feathers that consist of a shaft and loose barbules. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He instead modelled the skeletal mounts after the cassowary and wallaby, and put the spike that had been on the nose firmly on the thumb. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The cassowary has claws up to 125 mm long. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Adult southern cassowaries are 1.5to(-)1.8 m tall, although some females may reach 2 m, and weigh 58.5 kg. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They then studied 140 cases of cassowary mortality and found that motor vehicle strikes accounted for 55% of them, and dog attacks produced another 18%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Cassowaries commonly eat cassowary plums, hence the name. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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