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单词 dickcissel
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dickcisseln.

Brit. /dɪkˈsɪsl/, /ˈdɪksɪsl/, U.S. /dɪkˈsɪs(ə)l/, /ˈdɪkˌsɪs(ə)l/
Forms: 1800s– dickcissel, 1800s– dicksissel.
Etymology: Imitative of the bird's cry.
Originally U.S. regional.
A small passerine bird, Spiza americana (family Cardinalidae), having a stout bill and grey and brown plumage, with a black throat and yellow breast in the breeding male, nesting in summer in the North American Midwest and migrating south in winter. Also called little meadowlark.By earlier 19th-century writers called black-throated bunting.
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1874 E. Coues Birds of Northwest 166 In Illinois, Mr. Ridgway tells me, it is called..‘Dicksissel [sic]’..in allusion to its song.
1931 Auk 48 127 Mrs. Freer and myself heard a song coming from a dead chestnut tree in the midst of an alfalfa field..which was unmistakably that of a Dickcissel.
2017 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 23 June (HomeStyle section) c4/4 (caption) Male Dickcissel calls from roadside brush along grasslands of Pumping Station Rd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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