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altrices

/æl'triʃiәs/

📖 中文释义

  1. [动]晚成鸟, 育雏鸟
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. pl. Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young
  2. are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require
  3. the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces.