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yellowhammer in British English
(ˈjɛləʊˌhæmə)
noun
1.
a European bunting, Emberiza citrinella, having a yellowish head and body and brown streaked wings and tail
2. US and Canadian
the yellow-shafted flicker, an American woodpecker
flicker2 Word origin
C16: of uncertain originyellowhammer in American English
(ˈjɛloʊˌhæmər)
noun
1.
a small European bunting (Emberiza citrinella) having a yellow head, neck, and breast
2. US
yellow-shafted flicker
Word origin
altered by folk etym. < earlier yelambre < OE geolu, yellow + amore, a kind of bird, akin to OHG amaro, emmer, a kind of finch that fed on emmerImage ofyellowhammer
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