单词 | night singer |
释义 | > as lemmasnight singer night singer n. a bird or (occasionally) an insect that sings at night. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound singing bird1565 songbird1573 whistler1590 singer1626 songster1656 songstress1684 poeta1748 squeaker1808 twitterer1815 night singer1816 song-fowl1877 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Acrocephalus > species schoenobaenus (sedge warbler) reed-sparrow1676 chat1704 sedge-bird1738 willow-lark1769 sedge-warbler1776 reed-bird1782 sedge-wren1802 night singer1816 sedge reedling1837 mockingbird1883 fisherman's nightingale1884 sally picker1885 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxiv. 401 The Fulgoræ appear to be night-singers. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 230/1 The Nightingale, or night singer, is a migratory bird. 1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 361/1 In this country the mocking-bird is the only regular night-singer we have. 1940 E. T. Seton Trail of Artist-naturalist 224 The night singer of the Assiniboine, was neither more nor less than the white-throated sparrow. < as lemmas |
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