Sentence example with the word 'ortolan'

ortolan

Definition n. brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy

Last update: October 13, 2015


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Amongst these may be mentioned the blue-throated warbler, ortolan bunting, Lapland bunting, shore lark, red-throated pipit, tree warbler, and many others.   [Please select]

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Boblincoln no more, he is the reedbird now, the much-sought-for tidbit of Pennsylvanian epicures, the rival in unlucky fame of the ortolan.   [Please select]

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The ortolan is a small bird, abundant in southern Europe, Cyprus, and Japan.   [Please select]

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BOBOLINK (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) Blackbird family Called also:REEDBIRD; MAYBIRD; MEADOW-BIRD; AMERICAN ORTOLAN; BUTTER-BIRD; SKUNK BLACKBIRD Length -- 7 inches.   [Please select]

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Its food is rather nasty--water-slugs and the like,--but it is itself as fat as an ortolan, "almost melts in the _hand_."   [Please select]

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Instead of these, the contents proved to be a bird--and only one--a chick recently hatched, about the size of a squab-pigeon, and fat as a fed ortolan.   [Please select]

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