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ruticilla

ruticilla noun: a bird, the redstart.

Noun

ruticilla (plural ruticillas)

  1. A bird, the redstart.
    • The Ruticilla, or the small Redstart, Red-Tail, Fire-Tail, or Star-Finch, a beautiful song-bird, entertains us all summer, and disappears on the approach of winter.1769, John Wallis, The Natural History and Antiquities of Northumberland
    • Beside the Canary warbler I have only seen of small birds a couple of flame-coloured ruticillas (setophaga ruticilla,) a very rich-tinted bird, whose plumage of intermingled black and orange, as I would say, if oranges were always as ruddy as they are in this and the succeeding month, when they are...1855, Richard Hill, A week at Port Royal, page 7

Forms of ruticilla

pluralruticillas

Questions about ruticilla

What does ruticilla mean?
Ruticilla means a bird, the redstart.
What part of speech is ruticilla?
Ruticilla is a noun.
What is the plural of ruticilla?
The plural of ruticilla is ruticillas.

Words near ruticilla in the dictionary

  1. Ruthven
  2. Ruthvens
  3. Ruthwell
  4. Ruthy
  5. rutic acid
  6. ruticilla
  7. ruticillas
  8. Rutigliano
  9. Rutiglianos
  10. rutilance
  11. rutilances

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