单词 | mistle-bird |
释义 | mistle-birdn. Now English regional. The mistle thrush, Turdus viscivorus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus viscivorus (mistle-thrush) song thrush1598 mistle-bird1626 mistle thrush1646 shreitch1668 shrite1668 mistletoe thrush1719 storm cock1769 wood-thrush1791 rain-fowl1817 thrice-cock1819 mistle1845 hollin cock1848 fen-thrush1854 storm thrush1854 shirlcock1859 fell-thrush1879 felt1879 jay1880 jay pie1880 Norman thrush1885 stone-thrush1885 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §556 An Idle Tradition, that there is a Bird, called a Missel-Bird, that feedeth upon a seed which many times shee cannot digest [etc.]. 1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ ii. xvii. 137 Turdus viscivorus major. The Missel-Bird or Shrite. 1731 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds I. 31 The Mizzel-Bird, Turdus Viscivorus. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 90 The Missel-bird..is distinguished from all of the kind by its superior size. 1773 G. White Let. 9 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 98 The people of Hampshire and Sussex call the missel-bird the storm-cock. 1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Missel-bird, same as Miseltoe-thrush. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1626 |
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