currawongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Probably from Yagara garrawaŋ, ultimately onomatopoeic.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkʌɹəwɒŋ/

名詞

currawong (plural currawongs)

1. Any of the three species, and several subspecies, of large, mainly black, predatory passerine birds in the genus Strepera, endemic to Australia.
   • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 68:

     Currawongs and cookaburras woke him early.

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 174:

     She has small unblinking eyes like a currawong, turning its head on one side and staring malevolently […].

派生語

• black currawong
• black-winged currawong
• brown currawong
• clinking currawong
• grey currawong
• pied currawong