bottletit
bottletit noun: synonym of long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus.
Noun
bottletit (plural bottletits)
- Synonym of long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus.
- The bottle tit (Parus caudatus,) flits with great quickness among the branches of trees, and finds on the very smooth bark its particular food,1831, James Rennie, Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds, page 528
- The Bottletit—the nest and the bough are always put in glass cases; it’s a long hanging nest, like a bottle, with a hole about as big as a sixpence, and there’s mostly as many as eighteen eggs; they’ve been known to lay thirty-three.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 72
- Synonyms:
- long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus
Synonyms of bottletit
- long-tailed tit
- Aegithalos caudatus
Forms of bottletit
| plural | bottletits |
|---|
Origin of bottletit
From bottle + tit, from the shape of its nest.
Questions about bottletit
- What does bottletit mean?
- Bottletit means synonym of long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus.
- What part of speech is bottletit?
- Bottletit is a noun.
- What is the plural of bottletit?
- The plural of bottletit is bottletits.
Words near bottletit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bottletit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “bottletit.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bottletit. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.