单词 | cobweb bird |
释义 | > as lemmascobweb bird 4. More fully, cobweb bird, a local name of the Spotted Flycatcher ( Muscicapa grisola).‘From its use of spiders' webs in the construction of its nest’ (Swainson). ΚΠ 1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 426 This..is here well-known, and vulgarly called the Copweb. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds Index Cobweb, the Spotted Fly-catcher. 1888 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 380 The site of the present nest and one of its constituents gives two provincial names to the flycatcher—beam-bird and cobweb-bird. < as lemmas |
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