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Definition of Brantail

1. n. The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.

Definition of Brantail

1. a singing bird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Brantail

1. The European redstart; so called from the red colour of its tail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brantail

brannigan brannigans branning branny branny branny desquamation branny tetter brans bransle bransles

brant brant brant-fox Branta brantail (current term) brantail (current term) brantails Branta bernicla Branta canadensis Branta leucopsis

brantle brantles brants brant goose bran flake bran muffin Braque bras Brasdor's method Brasenia

Literary usage of Brantail

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1. Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds by George Montagu, James Rennie (1831)
"brantail. Firetail. * This species of warbler weighs about three drams and three quarters ; length five inches and a half; bill black; irides hazel; ..."

2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... which is embraced in the concavity of the folded cotyledons. Ite pod is long, slender, and many-seeded. The seeds are spherical brantail, the Redstart. ..."

3. "On a Sunshine Holyday" by Edward Marston, Chiswick Press (1897)
"... accurately depicted, and I knew them by their local names, sometimes differing from those given here, eg, for the Redstart our name was brantail, etc. ..."

4. British birds' eggs and nests, popularly described by John Christopher Atkinson (1861)
"... brantail, Redtail. The male is one of the most beautiful of our small birds, and I wish I could think it as abundant with us as it used to be. ..."

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