blue tit
noun
an Old World titmouse, Parus caeruleus, having a cobalt-blue crown.
Origin of blue tit
First recorded in 1835–45
Words nearby blue tit
Example sentences from the Web for blue tit
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.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children |W. HoughtonThe saw-like note of the great titmouse is said to foretell rain; that of the blue-tit, cold.
Poachers and Poaching |John WatsonBesides insects, blue-tit does not object to make a meal of dead mice or rats.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children |W. HoughtonMore fearless still is a blue-tit that has her dwelling in a crevice in the wall some fifty yards further on.
In the West Country |Francis A. Knight