| 单词 | black-capped chickadee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack-capped chickadee 1. Any of several North American titmice of the genus Poecilus; esp. (more fully black-capped chickadee) P. atricapillus of forests in Canada and the northern United States. The black-capped chickadee is closely allied to the Eurasian willow tit ( P. montanus), and was formerly thought to be conspecific with it. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus atricapillus tomtit1648 chickadee1832 1832 Encycl. Amer. XII. 281/1 The black-capt titmouse, or chick-a-dee, is the most familiar. 1884 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Mar. 615/1 We all know the lively black-capped chickadees. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know ii. 19 No bird, except the wren, is more cheerful than the chickadee, and his cheerfulness, fortunately, is just as ‘catching’ as measles. 2008 E. Royte Bottlemania iii. 64 The air is alive with the peeping of chickadees and the skronk of blue jays. < as lemmas |
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