great tit

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noun

an Old World titmouse, Parus major, yellowish green above with white cheeks.

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Origin of great tit

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby great tit

Great St. Bernard, Great St Bernard Pass, Great Stour, Great Sunday, Great Synagogue, great tit, great toe, Great Trek, great-uncle, great unwashed, Great Victoria Desert

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How to use great tit in a sentence

One story in particular I find, of a Great Tit having been placed in a well-filled aviary.
British Birds in their Haunts|Rev. C. A. Johns
A much more amiable little fellow, the great tit, has just added his modest assurance that spring is coming.
Windfalls|(AKA Alpha of the Plough) Alfred George Gardiner
Now we get on the Duke's Drive, and there, on a branch of a poplar tree, I see the great tit.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children|W. Houghton
If the great tit cannot get out of its prison, it commits suicide.
Birds of the wave and woodland|Phil (Philip Stewart) Robinson

But when in the afternoon we went to look at the captives, there was not a great tit among them all.
Birds of the wave and woodland|Phil (Philip Stewart) Robinson

British Dictionary definitions for great tit

great tit

noun

a large common Eurasian tit, Parus major, with yellow-and-black underparts and a black-and-white head

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