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Significados de thrasher em inglês

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Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed.

Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs.

Sinônimos
Examples for "mocking thrush"
Examples for "mocking thrush"
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Fifthly, there are three species of mocking thrush- aformhighly characteristic of America.
The Voyage of the Beagle
Uso de thrasher em inglês
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The big one looked up and shook his Hussite thrasher at us.
The fifth servant
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The brown thrasher is a beautiful singer and eats many insects, mostly injurious.
Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
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The thrasher is a strong fish, twenty feet long, and of great weight.
Fighting the Whales
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A steam thrasher didn't last long; a horse outlived three automobiles.
One of Ours
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They are the swordfish, the thrasher, and the killer.
Fighting the Whales
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From a tree-top near the roadside a brown thrasher will sing a song of rejoicing.
Friends and Helpers
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That poor thrasher, now, that you scared last week!
Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites
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I used to be a thrasher, you know.
The Diamond Age
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When they have been opened, the "feeder" throws the contents by armfuls into the "thrasher."
A Book of Exposition
10
See here, Claude, how soon do you figure you'll be able to let me have the thrasher?
One of Ours
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The water had been drained off and the reaper and thrasher were going through the fields before dawn.
The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay o...
12
The perp-almost always an innocent thrasher-isalways a three-second skateboard ride away from asylum in the neighboring franchulate.
Snow Crash
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The brown thrasher does some, or all of his fellow-birds and everything he does seems good to him.
The new yorker
14
Why is the thrasher so stealthy?
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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Across the fields in the early morning I hear some of the rare April birds,-thechewink and the brown thrasher.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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The killer or thrasher, about thirty feet; they often kill the other whales with which they are at perpetual war.
Letters from an American Farmer
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