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Definition of Bluethroat

1. Noun. Songbird of northern Europe and Asia.

Definition of Bluethroat

1. n. A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.

Medical Definition of Bluethroat

1. A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluethroat

bluesman bluesmen bluest bluestem bluestems bluestem wheatgrass bluestocking bluestocking bluestockingism bluestockings

bluestone bluestones bluesy bluet bluethroat (current term) bluethroat (current term) bluethroat pikeblenny bluetick blueticks bluetongue

bluetongue bluetongues bluetongue virus bluets bluets bluette bluettes blueweed blueweeds bluewing

Literary usage of Bluethroat

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1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The Arctic form of bluethroat twice annually crosses the length and breadth ... The nest of the bluethroat is very well concealed in the side of a tussock ..."

2. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1894)
"Starlings in thousands," "Robins in hundreds," and one very immature bluethroat. From the 12th to the 29th Dr. Power's memoranda record a succession of high ..."

3. An Illustrated Manual of British Birds by Howard Saunders (1899)
"The Red-spotted bluethroat breeds in the northern portions of Scandinavia and Russia, ... From Egypt westward the White-spotted bluethroat appears, ..."

4. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1899)
"The late Mr. F. Bond had a Red-spotted bluethroat from Sweden, an adult male with a narrow white border round the bay coloured breast spot, thus approaching ..."

5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"British examples of the white-spotted bluethroat ... The little bunting (Emberiza ¡lua'dtn) in England. Chubb, EC 205. Occurrence of the bluethroat ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"To the little bluethroat he assigned a velocity of two hundred and forty miles an hour, a statement as silly as that made by some fanciful observer in ..."

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