单词 | clot-bird |
释义 | † clot-birdn. Obsolete. A species of bird frequenting fallow land; the wheatear ( Saxicola œnanthe); called also arling, clodhopper, and fallow-smiter. (Also applied by some to the hawfinch, Coccothraustes vulgaris.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > oenanthe oenanthe (wheatear) arlingc1000 clot-bird1544 smatch1544 steinchek1544 wheatear1591 whitetail1611 fallow-smiter1666 stone-check1668 stone-smatch1668 chucka1682 horse-match1736 stone-chatter1783 white-rump1795 snorter1802 clodhopper1834 stone-chacker1853 horse-masher1885 stone-clink1885 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Coccothraustes (hawfinch) clot-bird1544 cherry-cracker1587 hawfinch1673 stone-biter1731 clodhopper1834 cherry-finch1865 1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. C6 Κυανός, Cœruleo, a clotburd, a smatche, an arlyng, a steinchek. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 653 A Clotbirde: a birde that appereth not in winter: a smatch: an arling. Cæruleo. 1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xxxiii. 144 The Clot bird in the fallow fields..is a very fat and a dainty bird much like vnto the Martine. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 100 Coccothraustes..The Clotbird (called sometimes a Smatch, or an Arling) is as big almost as a Thrush, feeding chiefly upon cherries, and cherry-kernels. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Clot-bird..a name by which the common œnanthe is called in many parts of England. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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