| 单词 | myrtle bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmyrtle bird myrtle bird n. = myrtle warbler n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus Dendroica > dendroica coronata (yellow-rump) yellow-rump1731 myrtle bird1810 myrtle warbler1892 1810 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. II. 139 Thro the..lower parts of the Carolinas, wherever the myrtles grew, these birds were numerous... In those parts of the country they are generally known by the name of Myrtle-birds. 1857 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 21 Oct. in Writings (1906) X. iii. 113 I see many myrtle-birds now about the house. 1937 Sci. Monthly Sept. 244/2 The yellow-rumped warbler..is now generally known as myrtle-bird, due to the fact that in winter it feeds in large flocks on the fruit of the bayberry bushes of the southern coast-region. 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Apr. 41 The myrtlebird is large, as warblers go, being almost as big as a house sparrow. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。