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Yellowhammer

//ˈjɛl.əʊˌhæm.ə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
  2. 2
    European bunting the male being bright yellow wordnet
  3. 3
    The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus, a woodpecker with yellow underwings and undertail and often other yellowish underparts; one of its ways of feeding is to hammer on trees to find insects (adults and larvae) to eat. US
  4. 4
    large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail wordnet
  5. 5
    A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.

Etymology

Alteration (influenced by hammer) of earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).

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