coot

noun

1. 蹼鸡，白骨顶（黑色水鸟，额和喙为白色）
   a black bird with a white forehead and beak that lives on or near water
2. 笨蛋；傻瓜
   a stupid person

1. 骨顶鸡；白骨顶
   A coot is a water bird with black feathers and a white patch on its forehead.

1. Photographer Steve Shinn managed to snap the stricken bird of prey on its back after a meal of a coot near a nature preserve in Long Beach, California.
   摄影师斯蒂夫·辛在加州的西南部的长滩市的一处自然保护区拍下了这张照片：这只看起来有点受到打击的猛禽在吃完一整只白骨顶鸡后躺在地上起不来了。
2. After a shot the f coot began to root and shoot in the boot.
   在枪之后脚对根开始并且穿靴子掠过。
3. He's a nice old coot.
   他是个可爱的老傻瓜。
4. Sometimes a coot will try and sneak one of its eggs into a neighbor's nest.
   有时白骨顶尝试把自己的蛋偷偷放到相邻巢穴中。
5. He's a sweet old coot.
   他是个可爱的老糊涂虫。
6. The American coot is a duck-like North American bird.
   美洲白骨顶是一种鸟，它们生活在北美并且长得像野鸭。
7. Poor man, he is only twenty years old, but owing to illness he is as bald as a coot.
   可怜的家伙，他只有20岁，可是由于生病，头顶已经光秃秃了。
8. Why did you buy him a hairbrush? He's as bald as a coot!
   你干嘛给他买梳子？他头上光秃秃的，一根头发也没有！
9. Any of various water birds of the family Rallidae, as the gallinule, rail, or coot, that inhabit marshland.
   秧鸡科的几种水鸟之任一种，如番鸡、秧鸡或黑鸭，居住在沼泽地。
10. Our son came back from the barber's shop as bald as coot.
    我们的儿子从理发店回来，头发剃得光光的。
11. By observing and describing the anatomical trait of bald coot's digestive apparatus, and comparing with water-fowl, grouse pheasant and so on, this paper discover that bald coot has no thv element bursa as waterfowl.
    通过观察描述骨项鸡消化系统各器官的解剖学特点，并与水禽、松鸡、雉鸡等的消化器官进行比较，发现与水禽相似，骨项鸡无嗉囊。
12. This technique has many advantages such as simple and convenient technological process, short separating cycle, less reagent, consumption, lower preparing coot, and high separating effect.
    其工艺具有流程简便、分离周期短、消耗试剂少、成本低、分离效果好等优点。

n.

(as) bald as a coot

• 光秃秃
  completely bald

noun

1. slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks