单词 | yellowbird |
释义 | yellowbirdn. Any of various birds having mainly yellow plumage, esp. the American goldfinch, Spinus tristis.summer yellowbird: see first element. 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 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > miscellaneous types of titmouse1611 yellowbird1625 tomtit1648 black cap1845 willow tit1907 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus Dendroica > dendroica destiva (summer yellowbird) yellowbird1625 yellowpoll1783 summer yellow bird1791 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Carduelis > carduelis tristis yellowbird1625 yellow1794 flax-bird1823 1625 tr. F. Cardim in S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. i. 1305 The Parots Guiraiubæ, or Yellow birds, neither speake not play, but are sullen and sad. 1698 T. C. New Atlas ix. 67 They have..divers sorts of fine Fowls, as Yellow Birds, wild Turtles, Pidgeons, and Larks. a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) i. 80 Regulus non cristatus Aldrov[andi]... The small Yellow-Bird. 1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 19 The yellow Bird, from Bengall... This Bird was about the bigness of a Fieldfare. 1775 Daily Advertiser 14 July To be sold at the Bird-Shop, Top of the Hay-Market,..Cardenels, Yellow Birds, a Pair of Red-Legged Partridges. 1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 21 The great resemblance which the Yellow-bird bears to the Canary, has made many persons attempt to pair individuals of the two species together. 1860 S. F. Baird Birds N. Amer. 421 Chrysomitris Tristis. Yellow Bird; Thistle Bird. 1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV 1056 Yellowbird is the North-American Siskin..and perhaps more than one of the Mniotiltidæ. 1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 79 This beautiful little Finch [sc. the American Goldfinch] is quite as often called the Yellow-bird,..due to his coloring. 1985 Times 4 May 30/1 Humming-birds hover in shivering suspense, yellow-birds accept crumbs from your hand. 2001 R. Peffer Virgin Islands (Lonely Planet) 22/1 More than 200 species of bird—including the official bird, the bananaquit or ‘yellow bird’—inhabit the Virgins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1625 |
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