redtailn.

Brit.

/ˈrɛdteɪl/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdˌteɪl/

Forms: see red adj. and n. and tail n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., tail n.¹

Etymology: < red adj. + tail n.¹ With sense 1a compare German Rotschwänzlein (1561 as rothschwentzel ), (now more frequently) Rotschwanz (early 19th cent. or earlier), and slightly later redstart n. and the foreign-language parallels cited at that entry.

1. A bird having a reddish tail.

a. British (chiefly regional in later use). A redstart (genus Phoenicurus); spec. the common redstart, P. phoenicurus. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Phoenicurus > species phoenicurus (redstart)

redtail1544

redstart1553

stark1611

firetail1752

star finch1752

brandtail1802

redstart warbler1815

firebrand1848

fiery brandtail1853

fireflirt1883

1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. H8 De Rubecula et rutacilla... Plinio phœnicurus, Gazæ ruticilla, Anglicè a rede tale.

1552 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Ruticilla, a little birde called a red tayle.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rubienne, the Red-taile, or Starke; a small bird.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5^v Bunting, redtaile.

1754 T. Gray Jrnl. in Huntington Lib. Q. 3 90/2 On the last day of April the Nightingale sung, the Thrush, & Redtail, &c.

1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 425 Red Tail. Motacilla erithacus. A Trifle bigger than the Redstart.

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Redstart Provincial. Redtail. Brantail.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 68/1 Redtail, the redstart.

1896 W. B. Tegetmeier Morris's Nat. Hist. Nests & Eggs Brit. Birds (new ed.) II. 66 Black Redstart.—Black Red-Tail.

1908 Geogr. Jrnl. 31 406 Of birds there were..jays,..blackbirds,..red-tails, peewits, martins, hill swallows, and many others.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 250 Redtail, the redstart.

b. U.S. The red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Buteo (buzzard) > buteo jamaicensis (red-tailed hawk)

hen hawk1742

red-tailed hawk1805

redtail1812

red-tailed buzzard1832

rabbit-hawk1851

1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VI. 75 Early next morning the unfortunate Red-tail was found a prisoner.

1883 E. Ingersoll Knocking around Rockies 135 The eggs were splashed with bright brown and yellowish tints like our redtail's; but they varied considerably.

1949 E. A. Kitchin Birds Olympic Penins. 65 The red-tail is a common hawk on the Peninsula.

1977 G. Woods Bloody Harvest 17 On top of a dead elm was a redtail, its back to us.

2004 Sporting Gun Mar. 33/3 Often he'll be out rabbiting or taking pheasants with a goshawk or a redtail.

2. Any of various fishes having a reddish tail.In quot. 1740: (British) †the rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus erythrophthalmus (rudd)

shallowc1050

rudd1526

red-eyea1672

finscale1677

redtail1740

1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling Index The Rud or Red-tail.

1820 Western Rev. 1 238 Kentuckian Shiner... Vulgar names, Indian Chub, Red tail, Shiner [etc.].

1876 G. B. Goode Classif. Coll. Illustr. Animal Resources U.S. 15 Carassius auratus..Red-tail.

1877 Jordan in Smithson. Coll. (1877) XIII. ix. 37 (note) Vulgar names [of the Red-tail Sucker]: Red-horse, Red-tail, Horse-fish [etc.].

1942 Geogr. Rev. 32 584 Fish abound [in the Cavally River, West Africa]. The commonest is perhaps the ‘red-tail’, about a foot in length, which unfortunately bears the reputation of being a scavenger.

1966 Amer. Naturalist 100 352 Fabricius..showed that spawning redtail, or white cloud mountain fish (Tanichthys albonubes) occupied smaller territories in areas of dense vegetation.

2001 Aquarist & Pondkeeper Apr. 20/1 They had a 4′×2′×2′ tank..and decided that this could be home to the Redtail and its already established companion,..another large catfish.

Compounds

attributive in the names of animals and birds, as redtail hawk, redtail lizard, redtail monkey, redtail parrot, redtail shark, redtail snapper, redtail sucker, redtail warbler.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > red- or rust-coloured > red-tailed

red-tailed1611

redtail1802

firetail1864

1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 244 Red-tail Lizard. Lacerta Cruenta.

1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. ii. 674 Red-Tail Warbler (Sylvia Erithracus).

1820 Rafinesque in Smithson. Coll. (1877) XIII. ix. 37 Red-tail Sucker, Catostomus Erythrurus.

1842 Z. Thompson Hist. Vermont i. 66 This owl, according to Audubon, does not build a nest, but lays its eggs..in a hollow tree, and sometimes in the old nest of a crow or red-tail hawk.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 58 The wearer's hair aglow with red-tail parrots' feathers.

1945 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 11 235/1 Other names for this fish [sc. Neomaenis synagris] are Lane Snapper, Redtail Snapper, [etc.].

1951 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 20 32 The writer, during current work in Uganda on the redtail monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti Matschie) has found no evidence of territory.

1969 Northern Territory News 11 July 13/2 The tank contains among others, redtail shark..and scissor fish.

1997 J. Moore Never eat your Heart Out 271 The thick..lashes blink when they hear the flapping overflights of redtail hawks or the occasional vulture.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	redtail
释义	redtailn. Brit. /ˈrɛdteɪl/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌteɪl/ Forms: see red adj. and n. and tail n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., tail n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + tail n.¹ With sense 1a compare German Rotschwänzlein (1561 as rothschwentzel ), (now more frequently) Rotschwanz (early 19th cent. or earlier), and slightly later redstart n. and the foreign-language parallels cited at that entry. 1. A bird having a reddish tail. a. British (chiefly regional in later use). A redstart (genus Phoenicurus); spec. the common redstart, P. phoenicurus. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Phoenicurus > species phoenicurus (redstart) redtail1544 redstart1553 stark1611 firetail1752 star finch1752 brandtail1802 redstart warbler1815 firebrand1848 fiery brandtail1853 fireflirt1883 1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. H8 De Rubecula et rutacilla... Plinio phœnicurus, Gazæ ruticilla, Anglicè a rede tale. 1552 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Ruticilla, a little birde called a red tayle. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rubienne, the Red-taile, or Starke; a small bird. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5^v Bunting, redtaile. 1754 T. Gray Jrnl. in Huntington Lib. Q. 3 90/2 On the last day of April the Nightingale sung, the Thrush, & Redtail, &c. 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 425 Red Tail. Motacilla erithacus. A Trifle bigger than the Redstart. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Redstart Provincial. Redtail. Brantail. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 68/1 Redtail, the redstart. 1896 W. B. Tegetmeier Morris's Nat. Hist. Nests & Eggs Brit. Birds (new ed.) II. 66 Black Redstart.—Black Red-Tail. 1908 Geogr. Jrnl. 31 406 Of birds there were..jays,..blackbirds,..red-tails, peewits, martins, hill swallows, and many others. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 250 Redtail, the redstart. b. U.S. The red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Buteo (buzzard) > buteo jamaicensis (red-tailed hawk) hen hawk1742 red-tailed hawk1805 redtail1812 red-tailed buzzard1832 rabbit-hawk1851 1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VI. 75 Early next morning the unfortunate Red-tail was found a prisoner. 1883 E. Ingersoll Knocking around Rockies 135 The eggs were splashed with bright brown and yellowish tints like our redtail's; but they varied considerably. 1949 E. A. Kitchin Birds Olympic Penins. 65 The red-tail is a common hawk on the Peninsula. 1977 G. Woods Bloody Harvest 17 On top of a dead elm was a redtail, its back to us. 2004 Sporting Gun Mar. 33/3 Often he'll be out rabbiting or taking pheasants with a goshawk or a redtail. 2. Any of various fishes having a reddish tail.In quot. 1740: (British) †the rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus erythrophthalmus (rudd) shallowc1050 rudd1526 red-eyea1672 finscale1677 redtail1740 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling Index The Rud or Red-tail. 1820 Western Rev. 1 238 Kentuckian Shiner... Vulgar names, Indian Chub, Red tail, Shiner [etc.]. 1876 G. B. Goode Classif. Coll. Illustr. Animal Resources U.S. 15 Carassius auratus..Red-tail. 1877 Jordan in Smithson. Coll. (1877) XIII. ix. 37 (note) Vulgar names [of the Red-tail Sucker]: Red-horse, Red-tail, Horse-fish [etc.]. 1942 Geogr. Rev. 32 584 Fish abound [in the Cavally River, West Africa]. The commonest is perhaps the ‘red-tail’, about a foot in length, which unfortunately bears the reputation of being a scavenger. 1966 Amer. Naturalist 100 352 Fabricius..showed that spawning redtail, or white cloud mountain fish (Tanichthys albonubes) occupied smaller territories in areas of dense vegetation. 2001 Aquarist & Pondkeeper Apr. 20/1 They had a 4′×2′×2′ tank..and decided that this could be home to the Redtail and its already established companion,..another large catfish. Compounds attributive in the names of animals and birds, as redtail hawk, redtail lizard, redtail monkey, redtail parrot, redtail shark, redtail snapper, redtail sucker, redtail warbler. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > red- or rust-coloured > red-tailed red-tailed1611 redtail1802 firetail1864 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 244 Red-tail Lizard. Lacerta Cruenta. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. ii. 674 Red-Tail Warbler (Sylvia Erithracus). 1820 Rafinesque in Smithson. Coll. (1877) XIII. ix. 37 Red-tail Sucker, Catostomus Erythrurus. 1842 Z. Thompson Hist. Vermont i. 66 This owl, according to Audubon, does not build a nest, but lays its eggs..in a hollow tree, and sometimes in the old nest of a crow or red-tail hawk. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 58 The wearer's hair aglow with red-tail parrots' feathers. 1945 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 11 235/1 Other names for this fish [sc. Neomaenis synagris] are Lane Snapper, Redtail Snapper, [etc.]. 1951 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 20 32 The writer, during current work in Uganda on the redtail monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti Matschie) has found no evidence of territory. 1969 Northern Territory News 11 July 13/2 The tank contains among others, redtail shark..and scissor fish. 1997 J. Moore Never eat your Heart Out 271 The thick..lashes blink when they hear the flapping overflights of redtail hawks or the occasional vulture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1544
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