yellowhammer

yel·low·ham·mer

Y0014400 (yĕl′ō-hăm′ər)n.1. A small bunting (Emberiza citrinella) native to Eurasia and northern Africa and introduced into New Zealand, having bright yellow plumage on the head, neck, and breast.2. See yellow-shafted flicker.

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[By folk etymology from earlier yelambre, perhaps from Middle English *yelwambre : yelow, yellow; see yellow + Old English amore, a kind of bird.]

yellowhammer

(ˈjɛləʊˌhæmə) n1. (Animals) a European bunting, Emberiza citrinella, having a yellowish head and body and brown streaked wings and tail2. (Animals) US and Canadian the yellow-shafted flicker, an American woodpecker. See flicker²[C16: of uncertain origin]

yel•low•ham•mer

(ˈyɛl oʊˌhæm ər)

n. 1. a common Eurasian bunting, Emberiza citrinella, the male of which is marked with bright yellow. 2. Southern U.S. a flicker, Colaptes auratus auratus, having yellow wing and tail linings. [1550–60; probably from Old English *geolu-amore=geolu yellow + amore presumably, the bunting]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	yellowhammer - large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tailColaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flickerflicker - North American woodpecker
	2.	yellowhammer - European bunting the male being bright yellowEmberiza citrinella, yellow buntingbunting - any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North AmericaEmberiza, genus Emberiza - Old World buntings

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