| 单词 | mountain finch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain finch mountain finch n. the brambling.extracted from finchn.mountain finch mountain finch n. [after post-classical Latin montifringilla (C. Gesner Historia Animalium (1555), after earlier use in T. Gaza Aristotelis de Natura Animalium (1476)), itself after ancient Greek ὀρόσπιζος (Aristotle)] any of various finches or related birds that frequent mountainous country, esp. †(a) the brambling, Fringilla montifringilla (obsolete); (b) a snow finch of the Asian genus Montifringilla (family Ploceidae). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > other or unspecified types of mountain spink1611 ring sparrow1678 oxbird1738 fody1792 mountain finch1800 fox-sparrow1869 grasshopper sparrow1883 quelea1930 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 255 The great pied Mountain-Finch or Bramlin. 1800 S. T. Coleridge Keepsake 6 The foxglove..bends beneath the up-springing lark Or mountain-finch alighting. 1867 A. L. Adams Wanderings Naturalist India 283 The black-headed mountain-finch Montifringilla hæmatopygia is often seen around the lake. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 64 Brambling... Also called Bramble finch, or Mountain finch. 1925 R. W. G. Hingston in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 263 Mountain finches are common high-altitude birds. 1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites (1959) i. 22 Mountain finches darted ahead of the car like flying-fish skittering away before the plunging bow of a steamer. 1996 Global Ecol. & Biogeogr. Lett. 5 21/1 Sillem's mountain finch Leucosticte sillemi, known world-wide from only two specimens collected from western Tibet. < as lemmas |
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