单词 | wheat-bird |
释义 | > as lemmaswheat-bird wheat-bird n. a bird that feeds on wheat, esp. the chaffinch; also, in North America, the horned lark, Eremophila alpestris. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > that eats specific things worm-fowlc1381 seed fowlc1500 thistle-eater1562 chipper1668 honeyeater1688 wheat-bird1747 falcon-fisher1759 worm-eater1760 bone-breaker1787 seed eater1820 carrion-bird1839 seed feeder1853 fish-tiger1879 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) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Fringillinae > fringilla coelebs (chaffinch) spinkc1425 chaffinchc1440 sheld-apple1544 shilfa1684 guinet1725 wheat-bird1747 piefinch1779 scobby1800 beech-finch1815 pink1816 twink1816 whitewing1854 spinkie1911 1747 M. Catesby in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 444 They [sc. exotic Birds] arrive [in Virginia] annually at the time that Wheat..is at a certain Degree of Maturity... They have attain'd the Name of Wheat-Birds. 1865 E. A. Samuels in Rep. Comm. Agric. 1864 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 422 White-throated Sparrow—Peabody Bird—Wheat Bird... This beautiful sparrow arrives in Massachusetts by the first week in April. 1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. ii. 212 Horned Lark..[also called] Prairie Bird; Road Trotter; Wheat Bird. < as lemmas |
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