单词 | yellow finch |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow finch (a) In names of species and varieties of animals distinguished by their yellow colour or colouring, as yellow bittern, yellow boa, yellow chatterer, yellow clam, yellow finch, yellow flycatcher, yellow grosbeak, yellow Labrador, yellow tanager, yellow woodpecker, etc.Cf. yellow yorling at yorling n.See also yellowbird n., yellowfish n., yellowhammer n., etc. [In quot. OE rendering post-classical Latin luscinus nightingale, but perhaps denoting the yellow wagtail; with the second element compare Old Icelandic ertla wagtail.] ΚΠ OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 72 Luscinus, geolewearte. c1175 Libellus de Nominibus Naturalium Rerum in T. Hunt Teaching & Learning Lat. in 13th-cent. Eng. (1991) I. 23 Florentius, geolefincg. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 8 The brown or yellow Egle after Aristotles opinion is called in Greeke Guyseon. 1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 87 The Yellow Water-wagtail: Motacilla flava. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 141 (heading) The yellow blue-footed Persian Woodpecker of Aldrovandus. 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 139 Yellow Grosbeak…head, neck, breast, belly, and vent, yellow. 1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. V. 944 Yellow fingers, Strombus lambis. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. ii. 428 Yellow chatterer. (Ampelis luteus.)... Chatterer with the body above of brown green; beneath, rump, and lateral tail-feathers, yellow. 1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 264 A subtle and voracious enemy, the Yellow Boa. 1872 H. A. Wickham Rough Notes Journey through Wilderness ii. iii. 203 Many species of yellow fly-catchers perched upon the topmost twigs of the swamp-woods. 1894 Donahoe's Mag. Aug. 226/1 Percy was looking at the picture of a yellow tanager in a new looking bird book. 1913 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 65 200 Crocomorphus semicinnamomeus (Reichenb.). Yellow Woodpecker. 1974 Times 4 May 23/8 (advt.) Country home urgently wanted for two purebred Yellow Labrador bitches. 1991 Vanity Fair Dec. 246/1 Heaney is, like the yellow bittern, a very rare bird indeed. 2013 D. W. Beckman Marine Environmental Biol. & Conservation iii. 97/1 Along the South American coast the yellow clam Mesodesma donacium..[is] commonly harvested. < as lemmas |
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