Any of numerous Old World songbirds of the genus Zosterops and certain other genera of the family Zosteropidae, having greenish upperparts with a…
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| 释义 | the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Zosteropidae > genus Zosterops (white-eye) (6) white-eye1837 Any of numerous Old World songbirds of the genus Zosterops and certain other genera of the family Zosteropidae, having greenish upperparts with a… zosterops1867 Any of the small birds of the genus so named, widely distributed chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions, and characterized by a ring of white… blight-bird1870 an early settlers' name for a bird belonging to the Australian genus Zosterops. ringeye1871 Australian and New Zealand. An Australasian white-eye of the genus Zosterops (family Zosteropidae); esp. the grey-backed white-eye (or silvereye), Z.… wax-eye1874 = silver-eye n. at silver, n. adj.compounds 2c; cf. zosterops, n. greeny1890 Australian. Any predominantly green bird, esp. a silvereye of the western subspecies Zosterops lateralis gouldi. Also: (colloquial) a frog. |
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