whinchat, Saxicola rubetra
(noun) brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows
Source: WordNet® 3.1
whinchat (plural whinchats)
A small Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, that feeds on insects.
Source: Wiktionary
Whin"chat`, n. Etym: [So called because it frequents whins.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
