单词 | aberdevine |
释义 | aberdevinen. Now historical. The siskin, Carduelis spinus, esp. as a cage bird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Carduelis > carduelis spinus (siskin) terin?a1366 siskin1544 thraupis1600 chipper1668 aberdevine1728 barley-bird1766 1728 Bird Fancier's Recreation 71 (heading) The Aberdevine. 1740 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds (Suppl.) Plate 76 (caption) The Siskin or Abadavine. 1740 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds (Suppl.) p. 71 (heading) The Aberduvine. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 110 It [sc. the siskin] is..to be met with in the bird shops in London; and is known there by the name of the Aberdavine. 1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Siskin The Aberdivine or Siskin, is in size between that of the Greater and Lesser Red-poles. 1846 W. C. L. Martin Our Song Birds 148 The siskin or aberdevine..can be scarcely considered as a native of the British islands, but it visits us during the winter. 1919 T. A. Coward Birds Brit. Isles 1st Ser. 51 As a winter visitor the Siskin or Aberdevine, a name largely used by bird-catchers, is sporadic; in some winters it is common, in others scarce or absent. 1969 Reader's Digest Bk. Brit. Birds 157 This small yellow-green finch, once much admired as a cage-bird under the name of aberdevine, is another species on the advance because of the spread of conifer plantations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1728 |
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