单词 | yellow bunting |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow bunting yellow bunting n. the yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella. ΚΠ 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. ii. 325 Yellow Bunting..; the crown of the head is of a pleasant pale yellow. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 70 From the curious ‘scribbling’ on the eggs the Yellow Bunting..is in many places known as the ‘Writing Lark’. 1920 Atlantic (Iowa) News-Tel. 10 Mar. 3/4 A flock of rooks flying past overhead and a pair of yellow buntings in a field. 2003 J. Alder Birds & Flowers Castle Mey & Balmoral 32/1 The yellow buntings nest in a dense, lichen-encrusted hawthorn hedge leading down from the castle to the sea. < as lemmas |
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