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单词 black-headed
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black-headedadj.

Brit. /ˌblakˈhɛdᵻd/, U.S. /ˌblækˈ(h)ɛdəd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., headed adj.
Etymology: < black adj. + headed adj. Compare post-classical Latin and scientific Latin melanocephalus (see blackhead n.2). Compare blackhead adj.
Esp. in the names of birds: having a black head; = blackhead adj.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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