Definitions for stonechat

stonechat stone·chat

Spelling: [stohn-chat]
IPA: /ˈstoʊnˌtʃæt/

Stonechat is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 576 anagrams from letters in stonechat (acehnostt).

Definitions for stonechat

noun

  1. any of several small Old World birds, especially of the genus Saxicola, as S. torquata.

Origin of stonechat

1775-85; stone + chat, so called from its warning cry which sounds like a clash of stones

Examples for stonechat

It is difficult to put oneself in the place of the stonechat or of the Whinchat.

But the rock stood still, and a stonechat went and perched on it.

This was on April 23rd, and there were four eggs of the stonechat.

That delightful, restless little bird, the stonechat, is a near relation of the wheatear.

Only once have I seen a stonechat in the neighbourhood of this garden.

Mr. Blyth also informs me that the sexes of the stonechat, Saxicola rubicola, are distinguishable at a very early age.

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