| 单词 | woodcock pilot |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoodcock pilot woodcock pilot n. (also woodcock's pilot) a local name for the golden-crested wren (see quot. 1893). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Regulus > regulus regulus (goldcrest) yellowbird1625 regulus1750 basilisk1753 marigold bird1772 nettle creeper1772 goldcrest1819 marigold finch1828 kinglet1835 woodcock pilot1871 thumb bird1885 tot-o'er-seas1885 herring spink1906 pope's eye1965 1871 East Anglian IV. 112 ‘Woodcock Pilot’. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 368 The bird [sc. Golden-crested Wren] in autumn visits the east coast in enormous flocks,..they are well known to the fishermen as ‘Woodcock's Pilots,’ from their generally preceding by a few days the advent of those regular immigrants. 1907 Athenæum 11 May 570/2 The most interesting of these local terms is that of ‘woodcock pilot’, by which the goldcrest is known to all the wild fowlers. < as lemmas |
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