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chickadee
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chickadee \Chick"a*dee`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse ( Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
black-capped titmouse, 1834, American English, echoic of its cry.
Wiktionary
n. A small passerine bird (songbird) of the genus ''Parus'' or the family Paridae.
WordNet
n. any of various small gray-and-black songbirds of North America
Wikipedia
Chickadee is a group of birds in the Paridae family
Chickadee may also refer to:
- USS Chickadee (AM-59), a minesweeper in the United States Navy
- Chickadee (magazine), a Canadian children's magazine
- Chickadee Lake, a lake in Idaho, United States
- My Little Chickadee, a US film, starring W.C. Fields and Mae West
Chickadee (stylized as chickaDEE) is a Canadian children's magazine. It was founded in 1979 as a spin-off of OWL Magazine geared towards younger readers.
Originally focused on science and nature, the magazine, aimed at kids aged six to nine, has gradually become a more general-purpose children's magazine.
In 1997, chickaDEE (as well as sister publications OWL and Chirp) was purchased by Bayard Canada, which also owns a number of French-language children’s magazines, including Les Débrouillards and Les Explorateurs.
The chickadees are a group of North American birds in the tit family included in the genus Poecile. Species found in North America are referred as chickadees, while other species in the genus are called tits.
They are small-sized birds overall, usually having the crown of the head and throat patch distinctly darker than the body. They are at least 6 to 14 centimeters in size.
Their name reputedly comes from the fact that their calls make a distinctive "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" sound.
Usage examples of "chickadee".
Few succeeded, for as they fluttered past the Chickadee, they fell prey instead to its darting beak.
Only the smallest, like that Chickadee at home, could get into the air without their jet engines and fuel tanks, and even they needed help when they were carrying passengers or freight.
The Chickadee was staring into the sky, cocking its black-capped head toward the house, peering toward the nearest tree, and spinning with amazing lightness to seize a robin that only wanted to find a worm for its own breakfast.
He stood behind his son and watched the Chickadee, a foot away, separated only by the glass of the window, twitching its head back and forth, first one eye trained on the boy, then the other.
As he did so, the Chickadee stepped back itself, as if it could have heard and understood his words.
He would have thought the Chickadee one of the latter, except that there was no broken tether cord around its neck.
Andy, and as if noticing his disapproval, the Chickadee spread its wings and hopped into the air, flapping, gliding to another rooftop down the block.
But right now he was staring yearningly at the window, clearly wishing that the Chickadee would come down off the roof for him to watch.
He did not suggest that anyone was letting the Chickadee out deliberately, for that seemed unlikely.
Instead, she stared at the Chickadee on the roof, and her mouth set in a rigid line.
The Chickadee moved too, cocking its head to watch the little drama below it.
Its course took it over the roof of the house, and as soon as it was within reach, the Chickadee lunged and caught it by one wing.
The Chickadee cried out once more and leaped, more clumsily than usual, into the air, leaving its victim behind.
The Chickadee had returned just as the retrieval crew had been about to leave.
Conal was anxious for some reason, far more anxious than a dead Chickadee would seem to warrant.