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Definition of jacana in English: jacana(also jaçana) noun ˈdʒakənəˌZHäkəˈnä A small tropical wading bird with greatly elongated toes and claws that enable it to walk on floating vegetation. 水雉。亦称LILY-TROTTER Family Jacanidae: several genera and species Also called lily-trotter Example sentencesExamples - For decades, taxonomists couldn't agree whether to classify jacanas with rails or shorebirds; genetic studies now appear to confirm the latter.
- The river was ~ 0.9 km wide at that location, and it supported mats of floating aquatic vegetation on which hundreds of jacanas resided.
- Large wading and diving birds seemed to be everywhere: great white egrets, great blue herons, green herons, tricolored herons, roseate spoonbills, anhingas, cormorants, and jacanas.
- Last weekend about 25 people walked around Lismore Lake to celebrate Council's decision to leave the lake as a bird habitat, and it was a great pleasure to see four black swans again joining the jacanas and other bird life on the lake.
- When we came around the other side of the pond, someone spotted a jacana walking across the lily pads.
OriginMid 18th century: from Portuguese jaçanã, from Tupi-Guarani jasanã. Definition of jacana in US English: jacana(also jaçana) nounˌZHäkəˈnä A small tropical wading bird with greatly elongated toes and claws that enable it to walk on floating vegetation. 水雉。亦称LILY-TROTTER FamilyJacanidae: several genera and species Also called lily-trotter Example sentencesExamples - Last weekend about 25 people walked around Lismore Lake to celebrate Council's decision to leave the lake as a bird habitat, and it was a great pleasure to see four black swans again joining the jacanas and other bird life on the lake.
- For decades, taxonomists couldn't agree whether to classify jacanas with rails or shorebirds; genetic studies now appear to confirm the latter.
- Large wading and diving birds seemed to be everywhere: great white egrets, great blue herons, green herons, tricolored herons, roseate spoonbills, anhingas, cormorants, and jacanas.
- The river was ~ 0.9 km wide at that location, and it supported mats of floating aquatic vegetation on which hundreds of jacanas resided.
- When we came around the other side of the pond, someone spotted a jacana walking across the lily pads.
OriginMid 18th century: from Portuguese jaçanã, from Tupi-Guarani jasanã. |