| 单词 | cock of the north |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock of the North (f) †cock of the North or cock o' the North: the brambling, Fringilla montifringilla; (sometimes also) the capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus (Scottish, Obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla montifringilla (brambling) brambling1570 mountain spink1611 bramble1674 mountain finch1678 snow-finch1781 snow-hammer1802 snow-lark1832 cock of the North1834 furze-chucker1847 bramble-finch1865 1834 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. No. 3. 83 The birds of passage that visit us in winter are the fieldfare, the red-wing, the snow-flake, and the cock of the north. 1851 New Sporting Mag. Mar. 205 We had also the pleasure..of feasting our eyes on that wild and magnificent bird, ‘the cock of the north’ (capercailzie). 1925 H. M. Batten Nature from Highways 56 Few people know this bird in a wild, free state—the brambling, or bramble finch, or Cock o' the North as you choose to call it. 1996 Perthshire Advertiser 13 Feb. 23/2 One [bird] I particularly look out for..is known as the ‘Cock o' the North’, or alternatively as ‘Tartan Back’. Another pseudonym will give a stronger clue: ‘Bramble Finch’... At last, my first brambling has put in an appearance. < as lemmas |
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