= nightingale, n.1 1a.
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释义 | the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Luscinia > luscinia megarhynchos (nightingale) (12) nightgaleeOE = nightingale, n.1 1a. nightingalec1275 A small reddish-brown migratory thrush, Luscinia megarhynchos, of western Europe and northern Africa, noted for the melodious song of the male… nightbirdc1450 A bird that is chiefly (or only) heard or seen at night; esp. an owl, a nightingale, a petrel, or (English regional (Sussex)) a moorhen. Philomenec1500 = Philomel, n. Philomela1563 = Philomel, n. Philomel1579 A poetic or literary name for: the nightingale (in allusion to the myth of the maiden Philomela's transformation into that bird). Also as a count… rossignol?1590 poetic. The nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos. Obsolete. rare. Daulian bird1894 an affected name for the nightingale. Subcategories:— flock of (2) — sound made by (2) |
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