| 单词 | grey bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey bird grey bird n. British regional and U.S. regional any of various birds of a greyish colour; esp. (in Britain) the song thrush, Turdus philomelos. ΚΠ 1726 C. Ellison Most Pleasant Descr. Benwel Village 180 Sonorous sweet Grey-Bird; Which did resound, With Noise profound. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 396 The mountain mockingbird, familiarly known to the settlers as the ‘gray bird’, is said to have similarly increased. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 64 Linnet (Linota cannabina)... Grey: or Grey bird (Westmoreland; North of Ireland). From its dull colouring in winter. 1907 Sat. Rev. 9 Mar. 299/1 You find fieldfares and missel-thrushes in flocks, and the gray-bird, as the song-thrush is called. 1996 J. D. Rising Guide Identification & Nat. Hist. Sparrows U.S. & Canada 140 Residents of Sable I., Nova Scotia, where the Ipswich Sparrow breeds, call it the ‘gray bird’. < as lemmas |
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