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单词 jack-in-a-bottle
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jack-in-a-bottle
jack-in-a-bottle n. English regional Obsolete the long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus, which builds a bottle-shaped nest.Cf. bottle tit n. at bottle n.3 Compounds 8.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Aegithalos (long-tailed titmouse)
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1838 Penny Mag. 15 Dec. 482/1 It is known by other local names, as ‘Jack-in-a-bottle’, ‘Bottle Tom’, &c.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 31 The penduline form of the nest, and the feathers which compose the lining, have obtained for the bird the names of Jack in a bottle. Bottle Tom. [etc.]
1901 G. L. Apperson Idler's Cal. 17 Perhaps the greatest of these ornithological ‘Jacks’ is the ‘Jack-in-a-bottle’, which is a country name for a kind of titmouse that builds a bottle-like, hanging nest.
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