| 单词 | mountain linnet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain linnet mountain linnet n. [after post-classical Latin linaria montana (see quot. 1678)] the twite, Acanthis flavirostris. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Acanthis > acanthis flavirostris (twite) twite1562 mountain linnet1678 twite finch1785 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 261 The Mountain Linnet: Linaria Montana. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 111 The Mountain Linnet. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 516 Nearly allied to the foregoing species is the Twite, so named from its ordinary call-note, or Mountain-Linnet. 1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) 1st Ser. 65 The Twite is a bird of the heather; it is often called the Mountain-Linnet. 1994 Bird Keeper May 11/2 Wheatears and Whinchats are to be found all over the lower slopes along with the Twites which are sometimes more aptly referred to as ‘Mountain Linnets’. < as lemmas |
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