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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: stär′lĭng
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɑɹ.lɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɑː.lɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Noun
[edit]starling (plural starlings)
- A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
- The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
- Synonyms: European starling, (archaic, dialectal) stare
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 52, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 501:
- Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat across the sky at high speed, like Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide.
- The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
- (hydraulic engineering) An inclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together, before any work or structure as a protection against the wash of the waves, commonly used to protects the piers of a bridge.
- One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
- A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
Derived terms
[edit]- common starling, European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- New Zealand starling
- pied starling
- rose-colored starling, rose-coloured starling
- rosy starling (Pastor roseus)
- spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)
Translations
[edit]bird
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pilings
References
[edit]- “starling”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “starling”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 5908, column 1.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “starling”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume V, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5908, column 1.
- “starling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Starling (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
starling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sturnidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Hexagrammos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Sturnidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Hexagrammos on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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