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单词 long-tailed tit
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long-tailed tit
long-tailed tit n. (also long-tailed titmouse) a very small Eurasian songbird, Aegithalos caudatus, with black, white, and pink plumage and a very long tail.Formerly classed as a true titmouse of the family Paridae, this bird is now placed with the bushtits in the family Aegithalidae.
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1668Long tailed tit [see sense 1b].
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 242 The long-tail'd Titmouse.
1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 106 The delicate long-tailed titmouse.
1829 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit., & Art 27 441 The eggs with a white ground are those of the European oriole, the long-tailed tit.., and the common swallow.
1884 Cent. Mag. May 46/1 The long-tailed titmouse lays from ten to twelve eggs.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 582 As many as 2,379 feathers have been counted in the nest of the long-tailed tit.
2009 Independent 25 Mar. 18/2 The tiny long-tailed tit is so small—the tail is longer than the body—that it is very vulnerable to cold weather.
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