| 单词 | oat-seed bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoat-seed bird oat-seed bird n. British regional (now historical) the grey wagtail, M. cinerea, or formerly (perhaps by confusion) †the yellow wagtail, Motacilla flava (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Motacilla > other types of oat-seed bird1864 1864 J. C. Atkinson List Provinc. Names Birds Oat-seed-bird, Ray's wagtail. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 44 Grey wagtail (Motacilla melanope)..Oat seed bird (Yorkshire). 1979 F. Greenoak All Birds of Air 292 Their spring return is, like that of the Pied Wagtail, marked by ‘seed’ names such as Barley Bird and Oat-seed Bird. < as lemmas |
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