oxbirdn.

Brit.

/ˈɒksbəːd/, U.S.

/ˈɑksˌbərd/

Forms: see ox n. and bird n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., bird n.

Etymology: < ox n. + bird n. (see note below).The reason for use in sense 1 is unclear. It could perhaps allude to the resemblance of flocks of waders to herds of cattle. Compare ox-eye n. 2, oxen-and-kine n. In sense 2, alluding to the birds' habit of accompanying herds of large grazing mammals (in sense 2(b), perhaps after scientific Latin Bubalornis, genus name (A. Smith 1836), literally ‘buffalo bird’).

1. Any of various waders, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina, the sanderling, Calidris alba, the ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula, and the common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos. Cf. ox-eye n. 2a. Now regional.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin)

stint1519

dunlin1531

oxbirda1547

sea-lark1602

purre1611

ox-eye1612

jack snipe1664

spar1668

pickerel1684

sand laverock1694

sandy laverock1710

sea-snipe1767

plover's page1771

sand lark1771

red-back1813

red-backed sandpiper1813

ebb-sleeper1837

oxybird1887

simpleton1890

plover's provider1892

sand-runner1894

a1547 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 223 Prices of Foule—Oxe~birds, the doz.

1591–4 J. Lancaster Voy. to E. Indies (1810) II. 590 A certaine kind of foule called oxe birds, which are a gray kind of sea-foule, like a snite in colour but not in beake.

1699 J. Jones in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 257 They have..Plovers, Snipes, Oxbirds, Pipers,..and a hundred other sort of Fowl.

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Purre,... Provincial. Ox-bird, Ox-eye.

1819 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 492 By some persons they [sc. sanderlings] are called Oxbirds.

1863 J. R. Wise New Forest 312 Ringed Plover..known..in the neighbourhood of Christchurch and Lymington, as the ‘oxbird’.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 65 Ox-bird,..the common sand-piper.

1884 Sunday Mag. May 306/2 The Dunlin..on the Medway Creeks..is known as Ox-bird.

1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log i. 11 The tiny broad-arrow mark of the oxbird.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/1 In a few seconds a long flight of small waders flashed across us close to the water's edge. These were dunlins and stints, known locally as ox-birds.

1955 Amer. Speech 30 177 Oxbird, also a British provincial designation for the dunlin, means the same species here (N.H., Mass., Conn., N.Y., Ontario).

2. Any of several African birds often seen in the company of cattle: †(a) the cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis (obsolete); †(b) the white-billed buffalo weaver, Bubalornis albirostris, found in arid areas from western to eastern Africa, often in the company of herds of Cape buffalo (obsolete); (c) = oxpecker n. (rare).

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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

1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant iii. ii. 255 The Emseesy or Ox Bird is of the Bigness of the Curlew.

1877 P. L. Sclater in List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 6) 185 Textor alector, Temm[inck]. Ox-bird.

1890 Cent. Dict. Ox-bird, an oxbiter or oxpecker; an African bird of the family Buphagidæ.

1995 Times 21 Jan. (Weekend section) 3/4 (caption) Ox-birds eat buffalo ticks.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	oxbird
释义	oxbirdn. Brit. /ˈɒksbəːd/, U.S. /ˈɑksˌbərd/ Forms: see ox n. and bird n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., bird n. Etymology: < ox n. + bird n. (see note below).The reason for use in sense 1 is unclear. It could perhaps allude to the resemblance of flocks of waders to herds of cattle. Compare ox-eye n. 2, oxen-and-kine n. In sense 2, alluding to the birds' habit of accompanying herds of large grazing mammals (in sense 2(b), perhaps after scientific Latin Bubalornis, genus name (A. Smith 1836), literally ‘buffalo bird’). 1. Any of various waders, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina, the sanderling, Calidris alba, the ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula, and the common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos. Cf. ox-eye n. 2a. Now regional. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin) stint1519 dunlin1531 oxbirda1547 sea-lark1602 purre1611 ox-eye1612 jack snipe1664 spar1668 pickerel1684 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sea-snipe1767 plover's page1771 sand lark1771 red-back1813 red-backed sandpiper1813 ebb-sleeper1837 oxybird1887 simpleton1890 plover's provider1892 sand-runner1894 a1547 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 223 Prices of Foule—Oxe~birds, the doz. 1591–4 J. Lancaster Voy. to E. Indies (1810) II. 590 A certaine kind of foule called oxe birds, which are a gray kind of sea-foule, like a snite in colour but not in beake. 1699 J. Jones in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 257 They have..Plovers, Snipes, Oxbirds, Pipers,..and a hundred other sort of Fowl. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Purre,... Provincial. Ox-bird, Ox-eye. 1819 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 492 By some persons they [sc. sanderlings] are called Oxbirds. 1863 J. R. Wise New Forest 312 Ringed Plover..known..in the neighbourhood of Christchurch and Lymington, as the ‘oxbird’. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 65 Ox-bird,..the common sand-piper. 1884 Sunday Mag. May 306/2 The Dunlin..on the Medway Creeks..is known as Ox-bird. 1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log i. 11 The tiny broad-arrow mark of the oxbird. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/1 In a few seconds a long flight of small waders flashed across us close to the water's edge. These were dunlins and stints, known locally as ox-birds. 1955 Amer. Speech 30 177 Oxbird, also a British provincial designation for the dunlin, means the same species here (N.H., Mass., Conn., N.Y., Ontario). 2. Any of several African birds often seen in the company of cattle: †(a) the cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis (obsolete); †(b) the white-billed buffalo weaver, Bubalornis albirostris, found in arid areas from western to eastern Africa, often in the company of herds of Cape buffalo (obsolete); (c) = oxpecker n. (rare). 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 1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant iii. ii. 255 The Emseesy or Ox Bird is of the Bigness of the Curlew. 1877 P. L. Sclater in List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 6) 185 Textor alector, Temm[inck]. Ox-bird. 1890 Cent. Dict. Ox-bird, an oxbiter or oxpecker; an African bird of the family Buphagidæ. 1995 Times 21 Jan. (Weekend section) 3/4 (caption) Ox-birds eat buffalo ticks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1547
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