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yellowhammer

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Yellowhammer can refer to: Yellowhammer| Emberiza citrinella , an Old World passerine bird An alternative name for the yellow-shafted flicker ( Colaptes auratus ), a North American woodpecker A nickname for state troops from Alabama , United States Yellowhammer ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A band of yellowhammer , bright as celandines, fly between field and hedge. ▪ Like the yellowhammer , the foot and mouth virus is an aspect of wild nature, ungovernable and powerfully indifferent. ▪ To me at least the yellowhammer ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail [syn: yellow-shafted flicker , Colaptes auratus ] European bunting the male being bright yellow [syn: yellow bunting , Emberiza citrinella ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 common European finch ( Emberiza citrinella ). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, ...

Usage examples of yellowhammer.

Hedgesparrows, coal-tits, wagtails, yellowhammers, robins, bullfinches, half the birdlife of Germany was pecking at her finger through the wooden bars.

Now it is curious that the sparrows and blackbirds, yellowhammers and greenfinches, that roost in the bushes, fly into the net and are easily captured, but the starlings--thanks to their different ways in daylight--always fly out at the top of the bush, and so escape.

If I should say that ganders grow also to be gelded, I suppose that some will laugh me to scorn, neither have I tasted at any time of suc tivits, king-fishers, buntings, turtles (white or grey), linnets, bullfinches, goldfinches, washtails, cherrycrackers, yellowhammers, fieldfares, etc.

At the moment we were entering the Papal Gate I saw the yellowhammers flying in a line over our heads.