单词 | hay-jack |
释义 | hay-jackn. A name given to several small birds which build their nests of hay. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > nest or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that builds or lives in > that nests in specific place hay-bird1802 hay-jacka1825 hole-nester1938 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hay-jack, the lesser reed-sparrow, or sedge-bird of Penn. 1888 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 553/1 The nests of each of these species [of Sylvia] are very pretty works of art, firmly built of bents or other plant stalks..This style of nest-building..has obtained for the builders the name of ‘Hay-Jack’, quite without reference to the kind of bird which puts the nests together. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1825 |
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