| 词汇 | wheatear |
| 词源 | wheatear. The name of this Old World thrush originally had nothing to do with “wheat” or “ears.” First recorded in 1591, wheatear comes from the Anglo-Saxon hwitt, “white,” and eeres, “ass,” in reference to its white rump. Wheat later replaced hwett in its name because the bird “came when the wheat was yearly reaped.” |
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