Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the redstart, Ruticilla phænicura.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK, dialect, Yorkshire The European redstart.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the red colour of its tail.

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