thrush

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thrush /θrʌʃ/ noun  1. [countable]HBB a brown bird with spots on its front 鸫2. [uncountable]MI an infectious disease that can affect a person’s vagina or mouth 鹅口疮，口腔念珠菌病；念珠菌性阴道炎

Examples from the Corpus

thrush• Blind thrushes in the wood blunder and drop on to the brown needles.• I saw a flock of five bluebirds, a phoebe, and a hermit thrush.• By 8: 25 it is quite dusky, and the hermit thrushes are just coming into stride.• I see only a good case of thrush, minimum.• Human bathers, too, risk viral hepatitis, skin reactions and oral thrush.• A song thrush sang its repetitive phrases from the top of an oak tree.• Walking past trees and hedgerows we heard more bird song, blackbird, song thrush, robin.• A yellow warbler will do just as well as a vireo, a spotted thrush as well as a song sparrow.Origin thrush Old English thrysce

thrush nounChinese  

bird with its spots on a front Corpus brown

thrush
thrush /θrʌʃ/ noun1. [countable] a brown bird with spots on its front
2. [uncountable] an infectious disease that can affect a person’s vagina or mouth

thrushBrE /θrʌʃ/ 🔊NAmE /θrʌʃ/ 🔊 noun [countable] a bird with a brown back and brown spots on its chest 鸫（一种背部为褐色、胸部有褐色斑点的鸟）◆a song thrush歌鸫 [uncountable] an infectious disease that affects the mouth and throat 鹅口疮；真菌性口炎 [uncountable] (BrE) (NAmE ˈyeast infection) an infectious disease that affects the vagina 念珠菌阴道炎