yellowhammer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈjɛl.əʊˌhæm.ə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈjɛl.oʊˌhæm.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
  2. The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus, a woodpecker with yellow underwings and undertail and often other yellowish underparts; one of its ways of feeding is to hammer on trees to find insects (adults and larvae) to eat. US
  3. A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.

词形变化

yellowhammers plural yellow-ammer alternative yellow-hammer alternative

词汇关系

相关词
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词源

An alteration (influenced by hammer) of the earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).
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