单词 | blue tit |
释义 | > as lemmasblue tit blue tit n. a small titmouse, Parus caeruleus (family Paridae), common in Eurasia, which typically has a blue back, crown, and tail; also called blue cap, blue nun. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus caeruleus (blue-tit) pinnockc1275 meese1480 nun1585 tomtit1648 blue titmouse1673 puffer1773 blue cap1797 pinchem1809 blue bonnet1811 pick-cheesea1825 blue tit1831 billy-biter1843 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 350 The Oxeye has all the habits of the blue tit. 1883 Garden 24 Mar. 272/3 We generally have a meat bone hung up in a tree near the window for the blue-tits, who delight to creep around it. 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow xiv. 392 Some pertly-marked blue-tits scuffled. 1973 Observer 25 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 41/2 (caption) The blue tit..pierces the metal cap to get at the milk in a pinta from a Welsh dairy. 2008 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Feb. 24 Mild winters have encouraged blue tits to start breeding much earlier. < as lemmas |
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