| 单词 | seven sisters bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseven sisters bird 4. More fully seven sisters bird. A southern Asian bird often seen in small groups, the jungle babbler, Turdoides striata (family Leiotrichidae). [Compare slightly earlier sat-bhai n., borrowed from a Bengali word literally meaning ‘seven brothers’.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > miscellaneous night-raveneOE cold-finch1676 crane1678 diver1694 solitary1708 wheat-bird1747 yellow-bill1775 Chinese thrush1781 whidah thrush1781 tomtit1789 solitaire1797 year-bird1798 softbill1830 swift-shrike1841 scissor bird1843 seed finch1862 sea-flyer1869 stalker1872 seven sisters1873 dicky bird1879 baboon bird1883 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > genus Turdoides babillard1831 sat-bhai1863 seven sisters bird1873 Arabian babbler1967 1873 P. Robinson Nugæ Indicæ (ed. 2) 19 The Seven Sisters pretend to feed on insects, but that is only when they cannot get peas. 1901 R. Kipling Kim 90 The chattering, gray-backed Seven Sisters. 1997 E. Hoagland in Tigers & Ice (2000) 165 Red-wattled lapwings, the ‘policemen of the forest’, kept noisy watch over our progress, along with several ‘babblers’, the ‘seven sisters’ birds, so called because they always move in a group. < as lemmas |
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