| 单词 | virginia nightingale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasVirginia nightingale Virginia nightingale n. the cardinal grosbeak. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Cardinalinae > genus Cardinalis red-bird1649 Virginian nightingale1668 hawfinch1673 nutcracker1688 Virginia nightingale1694 cardinal1702 cardinal grosbeak1783 scarlet grosbeak1837 winter redbird1868 1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 995 Of Virginia Nightingale, or red Bird, there are two sorts. 1695 London Gaz. No. 3108/4 A Parcel of choice Virginia Nightingales, with choice Mock-Birds,..are to be sold by Tho. Bland. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Virginia-Nightingale, a Bird of a pure scarlet Colour, with a tuft on the Head. 1731 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds I. Pl. 57 The Red Grosbeak, or Virginia Nightingale... Some call it the Virginia Nightingale, and in Virginia, &c. they call it the Red-bird, but more properly the Red Grosbeak. 1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1831) II. 273 Numbers..having been carried over both to France and England, in which last country they are usually called Virginia nightingales. < as lemmas |
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