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stonechat

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stonechat has 1 sense

stonechat(n = noun.animal) saxicola torquata - common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast; Array

is a kind of chat, old world chat

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CIDE DICTIONARY

stonechat, n. [Stone + chat.] [So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.].

A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith. [1913 Webster]

" The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata)." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

stonechat, n. any small brown bird of the thrush family with black and white markings, esp. Saxicola torquata with a call like stones being knocked together.

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