单词 | black-headed |
释义 | black-headedadj. Esp. in the names of birds: having a black head; = blackhead adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > black-headed black-headed1660 blackhead1775 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed i. xxvi. 107 Delivered, they seek for a black-headed lamb [Fr. un agneau qui ait la teste noire], and carry the child to the Temple. 1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 87 The black-headed Titmouse: Parus ater. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. 1/1 Black-headed Froghopper, Cat. 39. This and the Two next are frequent in Gardens towards Autumn. 1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 106 The great black-headed titmouse. 1839 Madras Jrnl. 10 262 Oriolus melanocephalus L.—Black headed Mango bird or Oriole. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 75 The habits of the Black-headed grosbeak are quite different. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 109/2 The Black-headed Rock Snake (Aspidiotes), one of the Pythons. 1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo ix. 165 A black-headed heron picks for grubs in the garden. 2003 Bird Keeper June 41/3 Are black-headed nuns and Bengalese finches okay together? Compounds black-headed bunting n. the bunting Emberiza melanocephala, found from south-east Europe to central Asia, the male of which has yellow underparts and a chiefly black head. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Emberiza > other types of black-headed bunting1781 shaft-tailed bunting1781 cirl bunting1783 seave-cap1864 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 198 Black-headed B[unting]. Emberiza melanocephala. 1861 Times 15 Jan. 4/6 Among land birds I observed the short-eared owl, snow bunting.., mountain and common linnet, corn bunting, and black-headed bunting. 1915 Auk 32 288 Black-headed Bunting.—Eleven; Mt. Hermon region, Syria, May 27, June 7. 2008 Whitby Gaz. (Nexis) 3 June Reader Sheila Rawson spotted a black-headed bunting in her garden in Raw on Wednesday. black-headed gull n. a small gull, Larus ridibundus, which is widespread in Eurasia and common inland, having a dark brown head in the breeding season; also called laughing gull. ΚΠ 1760 A. D. Brisson Ornithologie VI. 212 L'Hirondelle-de-mer noire... Les Anglais, Scare-Crow... Small black Cloven-footed Sea-Swallow... Black headed Gull... Shear Water. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Gull—Red-legged This bird..is no other than the Black-headed Gull in its different stages of change before it arrives to maturity. 1931 Discovery Mar. 87/1 Black-headed gulls, the little red-legged, red-beaked sea birds so familiar to Londoners as winter visitors. 2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields ii. 27 The eggs of Lapwing, wild ducks, and Black-headed Gull have long been harvested traditionally in spring. black-headed partridge n. now rare the Arabian chukar, Alectoris melanocephala, a large Arabian partridge with chiefly grey plumage and a black and white head. ΚΠ 1868 Rep. Council Zool. Soc. London 32 Caccabis melanocephala (Rüpp.). Black-headed Partridge. 1902 R. Ward Sportsman's Handbk. (ed. 9) 163 Game-birds are not numerous [in Arabia], the chief being the Black-headed Partridge (Caccabis melanocephala), which is the largest of the ‘Red Legs’. 1931 Auk 48 643 Colored plates in the several issues as follows: Green Pigeon..in March..; and Black-headed Partridge (Alectoris melanocephala), in August. black-headed titmouse n. now historical and rare any of various tits of the family Paridae having a black cap or black head, as (in Britain) the great tit, Parus major, and (in North America) the black-capped chickadee, Poecile atricapillus. ΚΠ 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 87 The black-headed Titmouse: Parus ater. 1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 106 The blue titmouse, or nun (parus cæruleus), the cole-mouse (parus ater), the great black-headed titmouse (fringillago), the marsh titmouse (parus palustris). 1824 W. H. Keating Narr. Exped. St. Peter's River II. ii. 129 Among the birds Mr. Say killed the ruby-throated humming-bird, black-headed titmouse, and pileated wood-pecker. 1949 Q. Rev. 287 196 Approaching The Hanger I could hear the voices of White's great black-headed titmouse and of the blue titmouse or nun. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1660 |
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