单词 | jar-bird |
释义 | jar-birdn. Local name of the Nut-hatch. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Sittidae > genus Sitta > sitta europaea (nuthatch) nuthatchc1350 nutjobber1544 nut-pecker1553 wood-cracker1677 jar-bird1768 nutcracker1879 1768 G. White Let. 18 Apr. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 47 My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter with it's bill against a dead bough, or some old pales, calling it a jar-bird... It proved to be the sitta europæa (the nuthatch). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1768 |
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