| 单词 | virginian nightingale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasVirginian nightingale Virginian nightingale n. 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 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 85 Coccothraustes Virginiana,..the Virginian Nightingale. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Nightingale Virginian Nightingale,..the common, but improper, name of a bird of the gross-beaked kind. 1777 R. B. Sheridan Governess ii. ii. 16 Her voice is like a Virginian nightingale. 1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 119 The cardinal or red bird, which was always described as the Virginian nightingale, on account of the clearness and strength rather than the variety of its notes. < as lemmas |
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