| 单词 | nettle creeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnettle creeper nettle creeper n. †(a) the goldcrest, Regulus regulus (obsolete); (b) British regional any of several warblers of the genus Sylvia which nest among nettles beneath hedges; esp. the whitethroat, S. communis, the blackcap, S. atricapilla, or the garden warbler, S. borin. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Regulus > regulus regulus (goldcrest) yellowbird1625 regulus1750 basilisk1753 marigold bird1772 nettle creeper1772 goldcrest1819 marigold finch1828 kinglet1835 woodcock pilot1871 thumb bird1885 tot-o'er-seas1885 herring spink1906 pope's eye1965 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia communis (whitethroat) whey-beard1614 glut1661 muff1661 whitethroat1673 nettle-monger1712 whitethroat warbler1817 whey-bird1825 muggy1829 nettle-tom1830 muffit1837 mufty1837 nettle creeper1845 feather-bed1854 jackstraw1879 feather-bird1885 mealy-mouth1885 miller1885 muffya1886 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Sylvia > sylvia hortensis (beccafico) fig-bird1576 snap-fig1603 beccafico1621 fig-pecker1647 fig-finch1655 pettichaps1673 fig-eater1678 nettle-monger1712 garden warbler1817 nettle creeper1984 1772 J. Rutty Ess. Nat. Hist. Dublin I. 313 Nettle creeper or Marigold Bird, from the fine crown on its head, of the colour of a Marigold flower. 1817 T. Forster Synoptical Catal. Brit. Birds 16 Sylvia atricapilla, Blackcap, Haychat, Nettle Creeper, or Nettle Monger. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 364/2 The White Throat..is seen..among weeds and nettles, whence one of its provincial names is the Nettle Creeper. 1889 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow 252 Country boys set some value on the eggs of the nettle-creeper or whitethroat because the nest is difficult to find, and the eggs curiously marked. 1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) 1st Ser. 203 From its skill in traversing dense herbage, it [sc. the common Whitethroat] is known as the ‘Nettle creeper’. 1984 W. B. Lockwood Oxf. Bk. Brit. Bird Names 107/1 Nettle Creeper, a widespread local term for the Whitethroats, sometimes for the Blackcap or the garden Warbler, species which commonly nest among coarse vegetation, such as nettles. An alternative, rather humorous name is Nettle Monger. < as lemmas |
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