单词 | kate |
释义 | Katen. A dialect name for several species of finches, as the brambling, hawfinch, and goldfinch. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of ligurine1572 ligury1598 flax-finch1640 Kate1774 winter finch1783 indigo-bird1864 Galapagos finch1888 mamo1891 Darwin's finch1936 1774 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 283 (note) The London bird-catchers also sell..the yellow hammer, twite and brambling [note, They call this bird a kate] as singing birds. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Brambling Brambling, or Mountain Finch... Provincial. Kate. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 58 In the north, young goldfinches are called Grey Kates or Pates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1774 |
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