音标:[ˈstɑ:liŋz] ;
n. 八哥( starling的复数形式 )
n. gregarious birds native to the Old World

科学家解开鸟群秘密 How can flocks of birds, schools of fish or herds of antelope suddenly change direction -- all the individuals adjusting their movement in concert, at seemingly the same time? British researchers now have some insights int

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Washington state is the countrys largest producer of cherries and blueberries. The states wine industry is second only to Californias in value. But one non-native, nuisance bird is wreaking havoc. [Sound of starling call.] The European starling was b

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acefurtiamine
acrylamido
acute rickets
Adornoian
anuluss
ardiff
background charge
backplane bus
benzylacetophenone
Bonner Durchmusterung
branch over
Brandeis
brimson
broke to the wide
cable coupler
club floor
cocountable topology
color-picture tube
commencement of injection
conceptual recognition
contingency plan
Coriolis, Gaspard de
councilmates
criterion of yielding
cunjevoi
dehydrants
dereplicate
diamond anastomose
digging height
dilvermoon
direct-axis subtransient open circuit time constant
disbecoming
dixeny
dominationists
Doric dialect
ear-nose-and-throat doctors
embry-riddle
employee-owneds
enferre
ex plantation terms
family Cistaceae
Faxinal
Fed Cup
foreign pesonal holding company
forward error analysis
frost protection measure
GB/T
give someone a roasting
heat sensitivity
hellaby
implosive
internal boring
Jammu District
Kaitse
lateral plexus
litter-inhabiting
loanest
lymphoglandulae auriculares posteriores
mare boreum
molybdenum steels
non-involveds
nonchanging
nonmetal element
normal aggregates
Oberrot
oligotrophication
opocephalic
originial
pentakenium
phenidone
pneumatic holder-on
pogonias
polychlorinated biphenyls,PCBs
prill
proemiate
province
quicksandlike
robinson scaner
rolling-element bearing
sarcomatus goiter
SCBN
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio
self-correcting mechanism
seminaked
sextettes
simulation of random event
single-anode tube
single-breasted suits
sink refuse
slit fabrics
spherical resolver
stiffened shell
storm-warning tower
sulphidal
tablet computer
technetiums
the jaws of death
tool recess
turning plate
under-handed
upflow tube
volatile organic matter