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啄木鸟之一种
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Yellowhammer \Yel"low*ham`mer\, n. [For yellow-ammer, where
ammer is fr. AS. amore a kind of bird; akin to G. ammer a
yellow-hammer, OHG. amero.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A common European finch ({Emberiza citrinella}). The
color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck,
and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown,
and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish.
Called also {yellow bunting}, {scribbling lark}, and
{writing lark}. [Written also {yellow-ammer}.]
(b) The flicker. [Local, U. S.]
资料来源 : WordNet®
yellowhammer
n 1: large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and
yellow undersurface to wings and tail [syn: {yellow-shafted
flicker}, {Colaptes auratus}]
2: European bunting the male being bright yellow [syn: {yellow
bunting}, {Emberiza citrinella}]