单词 | coal tit |
释义 | coal titn. A small titmouse, Periparus (or Parus) ater (family Paridae), with a black head and white patches on the cheeks and nape, found across temperate Eurasia and parts of North Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus ater (coal-tit) coalmouseeOE tomtit1648 coal-hood1684 mop1688 coal titmouse1766 coal tit1829 1829 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit., & Art 27 441 The eggs with a white ground are those of the European oriole, the long-tailed tit, the cole-tit, the nut-hatch, the creeper, and the common swallow. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 3/2 The Great Tit..the Coal Tit..and the Bearded Tit are British. 1916 Hibbert Jrnl. Oct. 78 Outside my window hangs a cocoa-nut with its ends removed... At the present moment there is a cole-tit manifestly enjoying a feast of its contents. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 796/2 Our friendly little black-capped chickadee..is almost the exact counterpart of the European coal tit. 2002 K. Jamie Among Muslims 240 There were sounds of chopping wood, and a chirping pair of coal tits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1829 |
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