单词 | orange bird |
释义 | > as lemmasorange bird orange bird n. Jamaican a stripe-headed tanager of the subspecies Spindalis zena nigricephala, with an orange breast. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Thraupinae (tanager) > genus Spindalis orange bird1847 cashew-bird1852 1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 231 Cashew-bird... About Spanish Town, it is called the Orange-bird..from the resemblance of its plump and glowing breast to that beautiful fruit. 1894 A. Newton Dict. Birds Orange-bird, a name in Jamaica for Spindalis (prop. Spindasis) nigricephala, wrongly identified..with Fringilla zena..one of the Tanagers. 1936 J. Bond Birds W. Indies 370 Spindalis nigricephala, Goldfinch; Orange Bird; Cashew Bird; [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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