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yellowhammer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun yellowhammer has 2 senses
- yellowhammer(n = noun.animal) colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker - large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail; Array is a kind of flicker
- yellowhammer(n = noun.animal) emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting - European bunting the male being bright yellow; Array is a kind of bunting
is a member of emberiza, genus emberiza
CIDE DICTIONARY
yellowhammer, n. [For yellow-ammer, where ammer is fr. AS. amore a kind of bird; akin to G. ammer a yellow-hammer, OHG. amero.].
A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella ). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting , scribbling lark , and writing lark . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
yellowhammer, n. a bunting, Emberiza citrinella, of which the male has a yellow head, neck, and breast.
Etymology
16th c.: orig. of hammer uncert.
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