blackbird

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black·bird /ˈblækbɜːd $ -bɜːrd/ noun [countable]  HBBa common European and American bird, the male of which is completely black 乌鸫，黑唱鸫，黑鹂〔产于欧洲和美洲，其雄鸟遍体黑色〕

Examples from the Corpus

blackbird• Darwin noticed that some monogamous birds have very colorful males: mallards, for example, and blackbirds.• Species such as blackbirds and sparrows have three pointing forwards and one pointing back.• But is it a dialogue, or does each blackbird whistle for itself and not for the other?• Birds, especially blackbirds, like using the fibres for building nests.• When a stuffed owl was presented to experienced blackbirds living in aviaries, they started mobbing the mounted bird.• The evil spirits ascended from her mouth as a flock of blackbirds.• There were blackbirds and thrushes and skylarks and ravens and starlings and jays and magpies and many kinds of small finches.

black·bird nounChineseSyllable  

European bird, the male and of which American a common Corpus

blackbird
black‧bird /ˈblækbɜːd $ -bɜːrd/ noun [countable]
a common European and American bird, the male of which is completely black

black·birdBrE /ˈblækbɜːd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈblækbɜːrd/ 🔊 nouna European bird: the male is black with a yellow beak and the female is brown with a brown beak 乌鸫（见于欧洲，雄鸟黑羽黄喙，雌鸟棕色）a black N American bird, larger than the European blackbird, related to the starling 拟鹂（见于北美洲）