Crossword clues for stonechat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wheatear \Wheat"ear`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small European singing bird ( Saxicola [oe]nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
Chat \Chat\, n.
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Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.
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(Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat ( Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat ( Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat.
Bush chat. (Zo["o]l.) See under Bush.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various small Old World passerine birds of the genus ''Saxicola'' that feed on insects.
WordNet
n. common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast [syn: Saxicola torquata]
Usage examples of "stonechat".
The second had been in Betancuria, when Terrel had been accompanied by Alyssa in the shape of a stonechat, and Lathan - after instruction from Elam - had taken the form of a kestrel.
The song of the stonechat birds and the crickety chattering of mountain rats did not warm their nearly naked bodies.
The flat clifftop was bright with the cries of stonechats and gulls that rang above the dull pounding of the surf on the rocks below, the air sharp with a salty tang.
There was a stuffed owl on one bookcase, a raven on another, a pair of stonechats on a third.