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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. Noun. (UK dialect Yorkshire) The European redstart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brantail
1. a singing bird [n -S]
Medical Definition of Brantail
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Brantail
Literary usage of Brantail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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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