| 单词 | water-chat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater-chat water-chat n. now rare (a) any of several tyrant flycatchers; = water-tyrant n. (obsolete); (b) (in full forked-tail water-chat) any of several forktails of the genus Enicurus (family Muscicapidae), living near rocky streams in South-East Asia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > member of genus Platyrhynchus > types of loggerhead1657 walking tyrant1823 water-chat1834 silver-bill1883 1834 H. Murray et al. Encycl. Geogr. iii. 1298 The Stonechats and Wagtails are likewise unknown [in S. Amer.]; the first being supplied by the Ground-peckers.., and the latter by the Water-chats (Fluvicolinæ Sw.). 1867 C. Knight Nat. Hist. III. 333 The Water-Chats of Brazil pass by..imperceptible degrees into the lesser Tyrant-Shrikes (Tyrannula). 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. II. xxxix. 431 We find [in New Guinea] two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats. 1916 H. de V. Stacpoole Reef of Stars xiii. 127 The wonderful crowned pigeon flitted across from bank to bank; fork-tailed water-chats and blue flycatchers flew everywhere. < as lemmas |
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