单词 | european starling |
释义 | > as lemmasEuropean starling a. A common European songbird, Sturnus vulgaris (family Sturnidae), typically having dark iridescent plumage with occasional white speckles, gregarious behaviour, and a loud, mimicking call. Also more fully common starling, European starling. In later use also: any other bird of the family Sturnidae. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae starlingOE the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Sturnus stareOE starlingOE the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Sturnidae > genus Sturnus > sturnus vulgaris (starling) stareeOE starlingOE starle?1533 shepstare1563 ship-starnel1622 starnel1709 OE Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. (Harl. 107) in Zeitschr. f. Deutsches Alterthum (1889) 33 241 Sturnus, stærlinc. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 151 Soundre de porks et d'estourneus [glossed] sterlinges. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1789 Þe sparhauk flough be þe sterling [Gött. starling]. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ix. 135 Thei smote in a-monge hem as faucouns amonge starlinges. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 238 The styrlyng changis diuers stevynnys nys. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 713 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 117 The maviss and ye merle syngis Osillis and stirlingis. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The garruling of the stirlene gart the sparrou cheip. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 222 Ile haue a starling shalbe taught to speake Nothing but Mortimer. View more context for this quotation 1668 S. Pepys Diary 1 Mar. (1976) IX. 99 A Starling which..doth whistle and talk the most and best that ever I heard anything in my life. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 86 Then after all this came the Jack-daws, and Starlings (idle Birds that they are!). 1729 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (ed. 5) II. 39 Of all the Birds..I far prefer the Stirling's Notes. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 25 ‘I can't get out,’ said the starling. 1841 John Bull 20 Feb. 96/2 A common starling, which had been taught not only to lay aside its natural notes.., but to chatter away with all the volubility and much of the quaintness of an old maid. 1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 40 It is not generally known what a delicious bird the starling is to eat. 1894–5 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. III. 343 Starlings..all agree in possessing a wing with five primary quills, and twelve tail-feathers. 1948 N. M. Gunn Shadow iii. i. 184 Do you remember the collective nouns: a murmuration of starlings, wasn't it? 1988 I. Colegate Deceits of Time (1990) 15 He knew which drainpipes sheltered noisy families of starlings summer after summer. 2002 Connecticut Wildlife Mar. 9/1 Gilwood boxes have a high rate of use by European starlings (non-native). < as lemmas |
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