blue tit
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noun
an Old World titmouse, Parus caeruleus, having a cobalt-blue crown.
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Origin of blue tit
First recorded in 1835–45
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for blue tit
Historical Examples of blue tit
More fearless still is a blue-tit that has her dwelling in a crevice in the wall some fifty yards further on.
In the West CountryFrancis A. Knight
The saw-like note of the great titmouse is said to foretell rain; that of the blue-tit, cold.
Poachers and PoachingJohn Watson
Besides insects, blue-tit does not object to make a meal of dead mice or rats.
The blue-tit makes its nest in a wall or a hole in a tree and lays about nine or ten pretty little spotted eggs.