whitewingn.
/ˈwʌɪtwɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌwɪŋ/ 1. North American. The white-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi (see white-winged adj. Compounds).
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Melanitta > melanitta nigra (scoter)
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1829 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 29 May A great variety of sea fowl throng around the southern shores of Rhode Island. Brant, black coots, patchpoles, and whitewings.
1878 Proc. & Trans. Nova Scotian Inst. Nat. Sci. 4 391 The velvet duck or white wing..and the surf duck..spread themselves along the shore.
1951 A. C. Martin et al. Amer. Wildlife & Plants ii. v. 72/2 Like the other scoters, the whitewing subsists largely on marine animal life.
2000 C. S. Smith Field Guide Upland Birds & Waterfowl 118 Whitewings breed across much of Alaska and northcentral and northwestern Canada.
2. More fully whitewing dove. The white-winged dove, Zenaida asiatica, which is brownish-grey with a prominent white wing patch, and is found from the southern United States to Central America and the Caribbean.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Zenaida (mourning dove)
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1834 R. R. Madden Let. 3 July in Twelvemonth's Resid. W. Indies (1835) I. xviii. 244 Blue pigeon, Lowlands. Pea dove, ditto. White wing, ditto.
1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 304 (heading) Whitewing Dove..is a Turtle of much elegance.
1942 T. H. Kearney & R. H. Peebles Flowering Plants & Ferns Arizona 596 The white-wing dove, a favorite game bird of Arizona sportsmen, feeds largely on the seeds of the sahuaro.
1977 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 9 Jan. b 8/4 The request for Texas biologists to investigate the whitewing wintering grounds came from the International Whitewinged Dove Council.
2008 T. Arnhold & W. Parton Wingshooter's Guide Kansas Upland Birds & Wildfowl (new ed.) 72 A white-wing's tail is square while a mourning dove's comes to a sharp point.
3. English regional (midlands) and Irish English. The chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, which has conspicuous white wing bars. Now rare.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla coelebs (chaffinch)
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beech-finch1815
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whitewing1854
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1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 397 White-wing, the chaffinch.
1901 Shooting Times 22 June 21/2 In Ireland, the chaffinch is commonly called the ‘whitewing’, owing..to the white patches..conspicuous on the wings of the male bird when in flight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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