Definition of apostlebird in English:

apostlebird

noun

1A gregarious Australian bird of the mud-nester family, with grey, brown, and black plumage and a robust black bill.
灰短嘴澳鸦
Struthidea cinerea, family Corcoracidae (or Grallinidae)
Example sentencesExamples
- This family also contains birds as varied as the quail-thrushes, sittellas, choughs, apostlebirds, shrike-tits, bellbirds, whistlers, shrike-thrushes, birds-of paradise, butcherbirds, magpies, currawongs, woodswallows, orioles, cuckoo-shrikes, trillers, fantails, monarchs, magpie-larks, and others.
- In another paper accepted for publication in the same journal, he and colleagues from the University of Melbourne, Australia, studied apostlebirds, Struthidea cinerea.
- One need go no further than the verandah of your Canvas Cabin to see scaly-breasted and rainbow lorikeets, king parrots, scrub turkeys, kookaburras, currawongs squatter pigeons and apostlebirds.
1. 1.1Australian Any of a number of other gregarious birds, especially babblers.
  〈澳〉群居鸟（尤指幽眉）

Origin

Early 20th century: named from the supposed habit of these birds of going about in flocks of twelve.

词汇	apostlebird
释义	Definition of apostlebird in English: apostlebird noun 1A gregarious Australian bird of the mud-nester family, with grey, brown, and black plumage and a robust black bill. 灰短嘴澳鸦 Struthidea cinerea, family Corcoracidae (or Grallinidae) Example sentencesExamples This family also contains birds as varied as the quail-thrushes, sittellas, choughs, apostlebirds, shrike-tits, bellbirds, whistlers, shrike-thrushes, birds-of paradise, butcherbirds, magpies, currawongs, woodswallows, orioles, cuckoo-shrikes, trillers, fantails, monarchs, magpie-larks, and others. In another paper accepted for publication in the same journal, he and colleagues from the University of Melbourne, Australia, studied apostlebirds, Struthidea cinerea. One need go no further than the verandah of your Canvas Cabin to see scaly-breasted and rainbow lorikeets, king parrots, scrub turkeys, kookaburras, currawongs squatter pigeons and apostlebirds. 1.1Australian Any of a number of other gregarious birds, especially babblers. 〈澳〉群居鸟（尤指幽眉） Origin Early 20th century: named from the supposed habit of these birds of going about in flocks of twelve.
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