| 单词 | bluethroat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbluethroat bluethroat n. [after German Blau-Kehle (1742 or earlier)] (formerly more fully †bluethroat redstart) a chat, Luscinia svecica (family Muscicapidae), found chiefly in Eurasia, which has mainly brown plumage with a blue bib and pale eyestripe.Also with distinguishing word denoting the colour of a spot in the centre of the blue bib in certain subspecies. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Luscinia > other types of bluethroat1743 1743 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds I. 28 The Blue-throat Redstart. This bird..was named Blau-kehle, which is Blue-throat, and it being so near of Kin to the Redstart, I have given it the above name. 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 417 Blue-throat. M. Suecica. 1873 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 4) I. 323 The majority of Bluethroats which come to the rest of Continental Europe..were..first distinguished by Brehm as Cyanecula leucocyana. 1954 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles III. 307 Bluethroat, Cyanosylvia svecica... Red-spotted Bluethroat, Cyanosylvia svecica svecica... White-spotted Bluethroat, Cyanosylvia svecica cyanecula. 2004 Daily Tel. 14 Dec. 5/3 (caption) A rare bluethroat is preparing to spend its first Christmas in Britain. < as lemmas |
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