| 单词 | mistletoe thrush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmistletoe thrush mistletoe thrush n. now chiefly English regional the mistle thrush, Turdus viscivorus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus viscivorus (mistle-thrush) song thrush1598 mistle-bird1626 mistle thrush1646 shreitch1668 shrite1668 mistletoe thrush1719 storm cock1769 wood-thrush1791 rain-fowl1817 thrice-cock1819 mistle1845 hollin cock1848 fen-thrush1854 storm thrush1854 shirlcock1859 fell-thrush1879 felt1879 jay1880 jay pie1880 Norman thrush1885 stone-thrush1885 1719 J. Colbatch Diss. conc. Mistletoe 7 A Bird generally known by the Name of the Misletoe Thrush; which Name, I suppose, it derives from its feeding upon Misletoe-Berries. 1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals 64 Throstle Cock, Shrite,..Misselto Thrush. 1874 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 9 166/1 It moves off in considerable flocks into Herefordshire and Monmouthshire for the sake of the mistletoe..on the viscous berries of which it delights to feed; whence it has obtained its familiar name of missel, or mistletoe-thrush. 1937 Sci. Monthly Sept. 243/2 The name [shrike]..was applied in England, after the career of the Danes there, to the mistletoe thrush. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 77 Mistletoe thrush, missel thrush. < as lemmas |
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