white-earedadj.
/ˈwʌɪtɪəd/, /ˌwʌɪtˈɪəd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌɪ(ə)rd/ Having white ears or ear-like structures, or white markings near the ears. Frequently in names of animals.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having particular colour round ears
white-eared1780
white-ear1815
the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > miscellaneous members
gold pheasant1765
white-eared1780
cheer1826
tragopan1829
koklass1864
tree-partridge1864
wood-quail1891
bush-quail1893
swamp quail1895
the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > streaked or marked with white > having a white head > having white ears
white-eared1780
white-ear1815
1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular V. 224 The pencils of these white-eared caracals are thin, short, and black.
1822 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds IV. 186 White-eared Honey-eater..common about Port Jackson, Sydney, and Parametta.
1877 H. B. Pritchard in Nature 17 May 54/2 Two White-eared Conures (Conurus leucotis) from South America.
1903 Emu 2 164 White-eared Honey-eater (Ptilotis leucotis).—Not uncommon in the forest.
1944 Life 15 May 45 (caption) White-eared kob antelope was born March 13 at Bronx Zoo.
1991 Birder's World Oct. 68/3 Ramsey Canyon in Arizona played host to a pair of White-eared Hummingbirds from Mexico.
2000 Collections Summer 9/2 Over the next few months look for: Barbary ape, Common white-eared marmoset, [etc.].
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white-eared flycatcher n. now rare = white-eared monarch n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Monarchinae > other types of
white-eared flycatcher1851
paradise flycatcher1862
1851 J. Gould Birds Austral.: Suppl. (1869) Pl. 12 (heading) White-eared Flycatcher.
1865 J. Gould Handbk. Birds Austral. I. 264 I have refrained from making the White-eared Flycatcher the type of a new genus.
1912 E. J. Banfield My Tropic Isle (ed. 2) xix. 192 A white-eared flycatcher took up its abode near the house.
1986 H. Heatwole & M. Lowman Dieback: Death Austral. Landscape 78 (caption) A white-eared flycatcher (Monarcha leucotis) foraging for food on the tips of branches.
white-eared monarch n. (also white-eared monarch flycatcher) a monarch flycatcher native to Australia, Monarcha leucotis, having white patches on its black head.
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1975 R. Schodde Interim List Austral. Songbirds: Passerines 36 Monarcha leucotis Gould (formerly Carterornis leucotis). White-eared Monarch.
1985 Austral. Bird Watcher 11 8 I awoke that morning to hear a White-eared Monarch calling from a tree outside my bedroom window.
2012 D. Stone Walks, Tracks & Trails New S. Wales 12 White-eared monarchs and the rarer barred cuckoo-shrikes are also present.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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