water-chatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

water-chat (plural water-chats)

1. (archaic, rare, zoology) A classification for certain types of birds.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 431:

     We find two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats; [...] two species of Gracula, the Mynahs of India; and a curious little black Prionochilus, a saw-billed fruit pecker, undoubtedly allied to the Malayan form, although perhaps a distinct genus.

   1. A South American tyrant flycatcher.
   2. A forktail thrush.

参考

• waterthrush