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Definition: Stonechat |
StonechatNoun1. Common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stonechat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Note: Stonechat \Stone"chat`\, noun. [Stone + chat.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: StonechatSynonym: Saxicola torquata (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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| Saxicola torquata |
The Stonechat Saxicola torquata is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It, and similar small European species, are often called chatss.
It is a partially migratory insectivorous species, but the European race rubicola is resident in the milder south and west of its range. The Irish race hibernans is also largely resident. Stonechats breeds in open rough gorse, tussocks or heather.
The race variegata from west fo the Caspian Sea has a tail pattern resembling wheatear.
The migratory eastern races like maura may be a separate species Siberian Stonechat. They are paler with white rumps.
Stonechat is similar in size to the European Robin. Both sexes of rubicola have a yellowish rump and dark tail. The summer male rubicola has black upperparts, orange throat and black head. It has white patches on the sides of its neck. The female has paler brown upperparts and head, and no white neck patches.
The male has a clicking call like stones knocking together, which gives it its name. The song is high and twittering like a Dunnock.
Other members of the genus include
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stonechat."
Crosswords: Stonechat |
| English words defined with "stonechat": Moor titling ♦ Stonesmickle. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "stonechat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sortstrubet bynkefugl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roodborsttapuit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traquet pâtre, tarier rubicole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schwarzkehlchen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαυρολαίμης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "וחל (whinchat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | saltimpalo (chat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 野鶲 (a stonechat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | のびたき (a stonechat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | claghan ny gleigh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onechatstay cartaxo-comum. (various references) clacharan. (various references) tarabilla común, culiblanco (wheatear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | RM:puppennair, Saxicola torquata. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stonechat": stonechats. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-n-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: etchants. | |
-2 letters: chasten, contest, costate, etchant, notates, notches, octanes, octants, shotten. | |
-3 letters: ascent, atones, canoes, cantos, centas, centos, chants, chaste, cheats, chosen, chotts, contes, costae, cotans, cottae, cottas, enacts, encash, ethnos, hances, hasten, honest, naches, nachos, notate, oceans, octane, octans, octant, octets, sachet, scathe, secant, snatch, snathe, stacte, stance, stanch, stench, taches, tenths. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-n-o-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: stonechats. | |
+2 letters: anchovettas, fianchettos, stenobathic, technocrats, trochanters. | |
+3 letters: anticathodes, autochthones, chaetognaths, nonaesthetic, thiocyanates. | |
+4 letters: nonarchitects, orchestrating, orchestration, theoreticians, trichopterans. | |
+5 letters: architectonics, authenticators, catechizations, counterthreats, cyanoethylates, hypothecations, monotheistical, nonattachments, orchestrations, photoreactions, schematization, trisoctahedron. | |
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