| 单词 | oxeye creeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasox-eye creeper ox-eye creeper a. Chiefly British regional. The great tit, Parus major (also great ox-eye). Also: any of various other tits, or small songbirds such as the chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita, the willow warbler, P. trochilus, and (more fully †ox-eye creeper) †the treecreeper, Certhia familiaris (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Certhiidae > certhia familiaris (tree-creeper) ox-eye1544 tree-creeper1814 tree-climber1879 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus major (great tit) great titmouse1544 ox-eye1544 tomtit1648 black cap1802 oven's nesta1825 pick-cheesea1825 Tom-noup1832 saw-sharpener1885 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Phylloscopus > species trochilus (willow-warbler) willow-wren1766 wood-wren1794 feather-poke1831 ground-wren1837 willow-warbler1846 feather-bed1854 mealy-mouth1885 sally picker1885 ox-eye1888 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Phylloscopus > species collybita (chiff-chaff) chiffchaffc1780 lesser pettichaps1843 fig-bird1854 bank-jug1881 sally picker1885 ox-eye1888 1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. G5v Primum parum, Angli uocant the great titmouse or the great oxei. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The ox ee cryit tueit. 1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1703 An Oxeye, or creeper, Certhia. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xi. 104 Oxeys or great Titmise, feed (as ordinary Titmise do) upon caterpillers, blossoms of Trees, bark worms and flies. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §4. 147 Those other Birds..a little bigger then a Wren called Ox-eye-creeper. 1796 Statist. Accts. Scotl. XVII. 250 Blue titmouse... Ox-eye. 1817 Sporting Mag. 50 142 A bird of the oxeye species has this year built its nest in the valve of a pump. 1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 33 British Cole Titmouse... Black ox-eye (Forfar). 1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 33 Blue Titmouse... Blue ox-eye (Forfar). 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Ox-eye, only name for both the chiff-chaff and the willow warbler. 1909 Daily Chron. 20 July 7/3 The ring-dove and the little chiming ox-eye have called you to hush. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 205/2 Ox-eye.., the great tit, Parus major. 1973 Times 17 Feb. 14/7 Great tits..are often called ‘ox-eyes’. < as lemmas |
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