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单词 witwall
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witwalln.

/ˈwɪtwɒl/
Forms: 1500s–1600s witwol, 1500s–1700s witwal, 1700s–1800s whitwall, 1500s– witwall.
Etymology: < early modern German. †wittewal(e , also †weidewal (Gesner), now widewal , wiedewal ; = Middle Low German weddewale , early Flemish widewael (Kilian). Compare woodwall n.
Now dialect.
1. The Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Oriolidae > genus Oriolus (oriole) > oriolus oriolus
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witwall1544
loriot1601
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1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. I7 Χλωρίον, uireo,..Anglicè a uuituuol, Germanicè eyn witwol, oder eyn weidwail.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 287 The Witwall or Lariot..is all ouer yellow.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Loriot, A Bird called a Witwall, Woodpecker, or Greenfinch.
1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 514 But one can hardly guess for what reason the..Raven and the Witwal [L. chlorio]..hate one the other.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Lorion, -ot, a Witwal, Yellow-peck, or Hickway.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 198 The Witwall, as it is by some called, Galbula seu Picus nidum suspendens.
2. The Green Woodpecker ( Gecinus viridis) or the Greater Spotted Woodpecker ( Dendrocopus major).
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > member of genus Picoides
witwall1668
pianet1706
hairy woodpecker1731
sap-sucker1805
ladder woodpecker1870
ladder-back woodpecker1884
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > picus viridis (green woodpecker)
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woodwall1490
speight1513
hickwall?1533
rainbird1544
woodspite1555
green-peak1598
yaffingale1609
pick-a-tree1615
witwall1668
storm cock1769
nicker-pecker1787
yaffle1792
awl-bird1802
popinjay1802
yaffler1802
dirt-bird1847
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stock eagle1884
nicker1886
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 86 Picus viridis..the Hickwall, Witwall, or Green-Wood-pecker.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 137 The greater spotted Woodpecker or Witwall.
1844 T. Hood Haunted House i, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 3 The ringing of the Whitwall's shrilly laughter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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