| 单词 | bohemian chatterer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBohemian chatterer Bohemian chatterer n. now chiefly historical = Bohemian waxwing n. [After post-classical Latin garrulus Bohemicus (1555 in Gesner), with the first element (due to a similarity of appearance) after post-classical Latin garrulus communis jay (in Gesner), and with the second element after German (regional: Bavaria (in Gesner)) Behemle Bohemian waxwing (literally ‘little Bohemian’).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ptilogonatidae > genus Bombycilla (waxwing) > bombycilla garrula (Bohemian waxwing) Bohemian chatterer1678 silk-tail1686 chatterer1731 waxen chatterer1797 Bohemian waxwing1816 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 133 (heading) The Bohemian Chatterer. Garrulus Bohemicus, Aldrov[andus] eidem Ampelis. 1772 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 316 I always conceived the Bohemian chatterer was not observed in Great Britain but at very distant intervals of years. 1975 D. Avon & T. Tilford Birds of Brit. & Europe 84 It is difficult to understand why the Waxwing was at one time called the Bohemian Chatterer, for it is fairly silent. < as lemmas |
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