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Meanings of nightjar in anglès
portuguès
caprimulgidae català
escloper Mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects.
Sinònims
Examples for "goatsucker"
Examples for "goatsucker"
1
By night the goatsucker visited it, and the bat, and the white owl gliding down the slope.
2
Tonight for the first time this season I heard the small whippoorwill or goatsucker of the Missouri cry.
3
They were the wail of the goatsucker, the bay of the barking wolf, and the maniac scream of the eagle.
4
A comparison of the beaks of the guacharo and the goatsucker serves to denote how much their habits must differ.
5
The varieties here collected, include the great goatsucker; the goatsuckers of Europe, New Holland, North America, and Africa; and the wedge-tailed goatsucker.
Usage of nightjar in anglès
1
Now everyone knows the Will's Widow is also called a nightjar.
2
Kelaart's nightjar; swarms on the marshy plains of Neuera-ellia at dusk.
3
Cirrus continued dusting the owlet nightjar, pretending he had not heard.
4
The call of a nightjar woke Alessandra from a troubled dream.
5
The nightjar tapped the pipe again, then dipped down to the pool to drink.
6
This peculiar sound is responsible for the name nightjar, frequently given to this curious bird.
7
Outside the mausoleum there was a bony rattle of fall leaves and the cry of a nightjar.
8
The nightjar sang again, sweet and solus.
9
The resident nightjar was in full voice.
10
He had heard a cry-ofa nightjar-butso strange and eerie that it made him hold his breath.
11
The stutter of a nightjar, breaking wood as elephants sucked bark from nearby trees, the cackle of a hyena.
12
IT WAS about this time of the year, Lady Day in August, that we once heard a nightjar in the Phoenix Park.
13
Looking up, Auri saw the shape of a nightjar outlined against the dull grey circle of light entering the grate high above.
14
As we return towards the old manor house the nightjar, or goatsucker, is droning loudly, and a nightingale-actuallya nightingale!-issinging in the copse.
15
We did not reach the inn at Brockenhurst until about nine o'clock, just at nightfall, and a few minutes before that we heard a nightjar.
16
Her fingertips caressed the illustration of the Nightjar on the cover page.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Nightjar through the time