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Webster 1913 Edition
Stonechat
Stone′chatˊ
,Noun.
[
Stone
+ chat
.] [So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A small, active, and very common European singing bird (
Pratincola rubicola
); – called also chickstone
, stonechacker
, stonechatter
, stoneclink
, stonesmith
. (b)
The wheatear.
(c)
The blue titmouse.
☞ The name is sometimes applied to various species of
Saxicola
, Pratincola
, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata
). Definition 2024
stonechat
stonechat
English
Noun
stonechat (plural stonechats)
Translations
bird
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