| 单词 | grasswren |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrasswren grasswren n. †(a) English regional the willow warbler ( Phylloscopus trochilus) or the chiffchaff ( P. collybita) (obsolete); (b) any of various other small songbirds; now spec. any of various Australian songbirds of the genus Amytornis (family Maluridae) with long tails and cryptic coloration (also with distinguishing word). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Malurinae (wren-warbler) > genus Amytornis (grass-wren) grasswren1836 wren1848 1836 E. Blyth in White's Nat. Hist. Selborne (new ed.) 64 (note) The adults of both [species] being known in Surrey by the term ‘grass-wren’. 1874 Ibis 4 155 Scaly-headed Grass-Wren. Tribura squameiceps. 1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. xvii. 103 The grass wren he called the ‘jump along’. 2013 I. Campbell & S. Woods Wildlife Austral. 178 Grasswrens are terrestrial birds that are larger and thicker billed than their cousins the fairywrens. < as lemmas |
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