jenny wren

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, especially as considered (in nursery-rhymes, etc.) as the wife or sweetheart of robin redbreast. UK
    — There would have been no one to superintend him, except a squirrel perhaps or a jenny wren, at which he might have winked.
  2. a female blue wren, or a male blue wren in non-breeding plumage. Australia
    — But Rogers had married beneath him, and the sight of the pursy upstart [...] sitting there, in satin and feathers, lording it over his own little Jenny Wren, was more than Mahony could tolerate.
  3. Synonym of herb Robert. US

词形变化

jenny wrens plural
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