HBPa group of thick bushes where animals can hide 〔动物藏身的〕树丛
Examples from the Corpus
covert• Red of juvenile, both on crown and under tailcoverts, is rather pale.• White eyestripe and under tail coverts.• Like a miniature short-billed Water Rail, with unspotted underparts, barred under tail coverts and greenbill.• Lack of red on under tail covertsdistinguishes from all other black and white woodpeckers, except Three-toed.• The only waterfowl with both red forehead and habit of constantly flirting white under tail coverts.• Plumage grey-brown, darker on underparts, with white under tail coverts.• He was helped by Athena to drive them out of their coverts, and as they flew up he shot them.
Origincovert1
(1200-1300)Old French past participle of covrir; → COVER1