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单词 brandtail
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brandtailn.

Forms: 1800s brandtail, 1800s brantail, 1800s branter (Herefordshire).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: brand n., tail n.1
Etymology: < brand n. + tail n.1 With the semantic motivation compare firetail n. 1.In form branter with reduction of the second element. Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbrandtail.
Name of a bird, the Redstart or Firetail.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Phoenicurus > species phoenicurus (redstart)
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stark1611
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brandtail1802
redstart warbler1815
firebrand1848
fiery brandtail1853
fireflirt1883
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Brantail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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