| 单词 | cricket bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmascricket bird cricket bird n. chiefly English regional (now rare) the grasshopper warbler, Locustella naevia. ΚΠ 1811 Royal Mil. Chron. Nov. 10 Bivouaced in a wood [sc. near Atalaya, Spain], and was entertained with a fine concert of vocal music by my old friends the frogs, lizards, cricket birds, &c. 1834 Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 341 The trill of the grasshopper warbler..or, as it is better named by the peasantry in these parts, ‘the cricket bird’, or the ‘rattlesnake bird’; the former, of course, from the similarity of its cry to that of the mole cricket. 1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 883/2 The grasshopper-warbler, cricket-bird, or cricket-chirper, haunts spots of a moister and, if possible, more lonely nature than the one just described. 2004 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 17 June 48 Country names for the grasshopper warbler include Cricket Bird, Reeler and Grasshopper Lark, from its reeling call. < as lemmas |
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