| 单词 | firebrand-tail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfirebrand-tail ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Phoenicurus > species phoenicurus (redstart) redtail1544 redstart1553 stark1611 firetail1752 star finch1752 brandtail1802 redstart warbler1815 firebrand1848 fiery brandtail1853 fireflirt1883 1848 Zoologist 6 2290 There [sc. in Gloucestershire] also the redstart is a ‘red firebrand-tail’, here [sc. in Worcestershire] it is simply the ‘red-tail’. 1888 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 354/1 I laid my head back among the ferns, to wait till the small fire-brand calmed down a little. 1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know iv. 66 Who would believe that this small firebrand..is a cousin of the sombre oven-bird that walks so daintily and leisurely over the ground? 1916 Wilson Bull. 28 141 Redstart—Setophaga ruticilla. This little firebrand of the woodland was noted hardly often enough to be called fairly common. < as lemmas |
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