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Webster 1913 Edition

(pĕt′ty̆-chŏps)

Noun.

(Zool.)

Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily

Sylviinæ

, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (

Sylvia hortensis

Noun.

A small bird of the genus Motacilla, called also beambird; found in the north of Europe.

The beambird is the spotted fly-catcher, of the genus Muscicapa.

pettychaps ‎(plural pettychaps)