white-eyen.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪtʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪdˌaɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., eye n.¹

Etymology: < white adj. + eye n.¹ Compare earlier white-eyed adj.With sense 1 compare scientific Latin leucophthalmus , specific name (from 1758 in names of insects, from 1776 in names of birds). In specific use with reference to a South African bird (see sense 2) after South African Dutch witoog (beginning of the 19th cent. or earlier: compare quot. c1808; Afrikaans witoog).

1. Any of several birds having a white iris, as the white-eyed vireo ( Vireo griseus) of North and Central America, the ferruginous duck ( Aythya nyroca) of Eurasia, and the white-eyed duck ( A. australis) of Australia.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Aythya (miscellaneous) > aythya nyroca (white-eye)

red duck1678

red-breasted duck1792

white-eye1810

hardhead1908

1810 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. II. 167 The White-eye Flycatcher is five inches and a quarter long.

1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals 121 N[yroca] leucophthalmos. White Eye.—Bill and legs blue. Irides white.

1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 White-eye, the Nyroca Pochard.

1969 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 31 May 10/7 Black duck, Teal, and sometimes White-eyes, are by no means strangers to the saltwater.

1993 M. Burton & R. Burton Internat. Wildlife Encycl. 1993 The second group is made up of pochards called white-eyes, and includes the hardhead (A. australis) and the ferruginous duck..(A. nyroca).

2. Any of numerous Old World songbirds of the genus Zosterops and certain other genera of the family Zosteropidae, having greenish upperparts with a ring of white feathers around the eye. Frequently with distinguishing word. Also called silver-eye.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Zosteropidae > genus Zosterops (white-eye)

white-eye1837

zosterops1867

blight-bird1870

ringeye1871

wax-eye1874

greeny1890

c1808 C. von Linné Syst. Nat. Hist. VIII. 455 The White-eyed Warbler... The Dutch at the Cape, and the Hottentot settlers, call it glass-oog, glass-eye, or wit-oog, white-eye.]

1837 W. Swainson Nat. Hist. Birds Western Afr. II. 43 We give the vernacular name of White-Eye to a singular group of little birds distinguished..by having the eyelids surrounded by a narrow ring of snow-white feathers.

1882 T. H. Potts Out in Open 130 The white eye or blight bird..with cheerful note, in crowded flocks, sweeps over the face of the country.

1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 161 He is quite the equal of his querulous cousin, the White-eye, though he certainly lacks the impertinence of that bird.

1992 Nat. World Winter 24/3 Two species of bird are unique to Mahé; the Seychelles white-eye and the Seychelles scops owl.

2008 J. Franzen in New Yorker 21 Apr. 101/1 The two most popular wild birds in Nanjing..were the tiny, jewel-like Japanese white-eye and the unfortunate hwamei.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	white-eye
释义	white-eyen. Brit. /ˈwʌɪtʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪdˌaɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., eye n.¹ Etymology: < white adj. + eye n.¹ Compare earlier white-eyed adj.With sense 1 compare scientific Latin leucophthalmus , specific name (from 1758 in names of insects, from 1776 in names of birds). In specific use with reference to a South African bird (see sense 2) after South African Dutch witoog (beginning of the 19th cent. or earlier: compare quot. c1808; Afrikaans witoog). 1. Any of several birds having a white iris, as the white-eyed vireo ( Vireo griseus) of North and Central America, the ferruginous duck ( Aythya nyroca) of Eurasia, and the white-eyed duck ( A. australis) of Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Aythya (miscellaneous) > aythya nyroca (white-eye) red duck1678 red-breasted duck1792 white-eye1810 hardhead1908 1810 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. II. 167 The White-eye Flycatcher is five inches and a quarter long. 1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals 121 N[yroca] leucophthalmos. White Eye.—Bill and legs blue. Irides white. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 White-eye, the Nyroca Pochard. 1969 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 31 May 10/7 Black duck, Teal, and sometimes White-eyes, are by no means strangers to the saltwater. 1993 M. Burton & R. Burton Internat. Wildlife Encycl. 1993 The second group is made up of pochards called white-eyes, and includes the hardhead (A. australis) and the ferruginous duck..(A. nyroca). 2. Any of numerous Old World songbirds of the genus Zosterops and certain other genera of the family Zosteropidae, having greenish upperparts with a ring of white feathers around the eye. Frequently with distinguishing word. Also called silver-eye. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Zosteropidae > genus Zosterops (white-eye) white-eye1837 zosterops1867 blight-bird1870 ringeye1871 wax-eye1874 greeny1890 c1808 C. von Linné Syst. Nat. Hist. VIII. 455 The White-eyed Warbler... The Dutch at the Cape, and the Hottentot settlers, call it glass-oog, glass-eye, or wit-oog, white-eye.] 1837 W. Swainson Nat. Hist. Birds Western Afr. II. 43 We give the vernacular name of White-Eye to a singular group of little birds distinguished..by having the eyelids surrounded by a narrow ring of snow-white feathers. 1882 T. H. Potts Out in Open 130 The white eye or blight bird..with cheerful note, in crowded flocks, sweeps over the face of the country. 1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 161 He is quite the equal of his querulous cousin, the White-eye, though he certainly lacks the impertinence of that bird. 1992 Nat. World Winter 24/3 Two species of bird are unique to Mahé; the Seychelles white-eye and the Seychelles scops owl. 2008 J. Franzen in New Yorker 21 Apr. 101/1 The two most popular wild birds in Nanjing..were the tiny, jewel-like Japanese white-eye and the unfortunate hwamei. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1810
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