| 单词 | reedling | 
| 释义 | reedlingn.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > 			[noun]		 > reed or the reed plant > collective or bed of reeds reedeOE spirea1250 reed bed1483 reedbeere1585 stover1621 reedlings1830 spire-bed1863 1830    J. D. Hoy in  Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 329  				The very young shell-snails of different kinds which are numerous in the bottom of the reedlings. 1863    H. G. Adams Our Feathered Families II. xiv. 282  				The Bearded Tits betake themselves to the ground, or the lower parts of the plants, where they creep and skulk in the midst of the reedlings.  2.  ΚΠ 1835    Analyst 2 306  				The sedge reedling (Salicaria phragmitis, Selby), he calls sedge warbler, and the marsh reedling, (S. arundinacea, Selby) he calls reed wren, thus giving different generic names..to the same genus. 1852    A. Pratt Our Native Songsters iii. 114  				Many, like the peasants of Lorraine, judge of the height to which the water will arrive, by the elevation of the nests of the reedlings. 1874    H. G. Adams  & H. B. Adams Smaller Brit. Birds 99  				The Reed Warbler, also called the Marsh Reedling and Reed Wren, is sometimes mistaken for the Sedge Warbler. 1883    R. Jefferies Nature near London 49  				At the end of the hedge which is near a brook, a sedge-reedling takes up his residence in the spring.  b.  In full  bearded reedling. A small, long-tailed Eurasian songbird,  Panurus biarmicus, which frequents reed beds, the male having dark facial markings resembling a moustache. Also called bearded parrotbill, bearded tit, bearded titmouse.The bearded reedling is now regarded as an aberrant parrotbill and is placed with them either in their own family ( Panuridae or  Paradoxornithidae), or within various other families ( Paridae,  Muscicapidae, or (now usually)  Timaliidae). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > 			[noun]		 > subfamily Paradoxornithidae > genus Panurus (bearded reedling) bearded titmouse1731 reed pheasant1831 reedling1837 1837    E. Blyth in  Mag. Nat. Hist. 1 207  				The bottletit progresses by hopping, like the tits; whereas the bearded reedling advances by alternate motion of the feet. 1871–4    Newton Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds I. 522  				Reedling, used for it by several authors, would certainly be preferable to Titmouse, had not some of the aquatic warblers been also so called. 1876    Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 21 510  				The reedlings (Panuridæ), the tits (Paridæ), and the magpies (Pica), are also very characteristic [of the Palæarctic region]. 1956    Times 16 Feb. 10/3  				Some call it ‘reedling’, or ‘reed pheasant’, because of its long tail. 1996    New Phytologist 133 241/2  				The River Tay population [of reeds]..hosts large populations of the bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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