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单词 mistle-bird
释义

mistle-birdn.

Brit. /ˈmɪslbəːd/, U.S. /ˈmɪs(ə)lˌbərd/
Forms: see mistle n. and bird n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mistle n., bird n.
Etymology: < mistle n. + bird n. Compare German Mistelfink, Dutch mistelvink.
Now English regional.
The mistle thrush, Turdus viscivorus.
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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).
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