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单词 blue-breast
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blue-breast
blue-breast n. (a) the bluethroat, Luscinia svecica (now rare); (b) the blue-breasted cordon-bleu, Uraeginthus angolensis (family Estrildidae), a waxbill with a pale blue face and underparts, common in southern Africa.
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1787 C. Taylor Surv. Nature II. 47 There is a Blue-breast, which, except in that colour, little differs from the red-breast.
1833 Field Naturalist 1 291 The blue-breast, (Motacilla Suecica, Linn.) has always been classed with these birds.
1895 Oracle Encycl. I. 424/1 Bluethroat, or Bluebreast, a genus of Insessorial birds, rare in Britain, but found very generally distributed over the continent of Europe.
1960 Bird-banding 31 164 The young Blue-breasts sang a great deal.
2004 Behaviour 141 1026 The blue breast (Uraeginthus angolensis) and red cheek (U. bengalus) were from South Africa, and West Africa respectively.
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