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redstart

[ red-stahrt ]

noun

  1. any of several small, Old World thrushes, usually with reddish-brown tails, especially Phoenicurus phoenicurus European redstart.
  2. any of several fly-catching, New World warblers, especially Setophaga ruticilla American redstart, having black and white plumage with reddish-orange patches.


redstart

/ ˈrɛdˌstɑːt /

noun

  1. any European songbird of the genus Phoenicurus , esp P. phoenicurus , in which the male has a black throat, orange-brown tail and breast, and grey back: family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc)
  2. any North American warbler of the genus Setophaga , esp S. ruticilla
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of redstart1

1560–70; red 1 + obsolete start tail ( Middle English start, stert tail, handle, Old English steort tail; akin to Old High German sterz, Old Norse stertr )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of redstart1

Old English rēad red 1+ steort tail; compare German Rotsterz
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Example Sentences

I may add that I have had the same bad luck in all my former visits to the Islands, and never seen a Redstart.

The male Black Redstart has also a white patch on the wing caused by the pale, nearly white, margins of the feathers.

Dippers, wagtails and the white-capped redstart were the commonest birds along the river-banks.

A brightly-coloured bird, the redstart, appears suddenly in spring, like a flower that has bloomed before the bud was noticed.

Of such are the redstart, the grey-headed flycatcher, the snipe and the majority of the game birds.

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