yellow-breasted bunting

9.1

A small songbird with a bright yellow belly that lives in Russia and Siberia

noun

: escribano amarillo

Birdwatchers traveled to Siberia to observe the elusive yellow-breasted bunting in its natural environment.

Examples

The yellow-breasted bunting has become increasingly rare due to habitat loss.
Conservationists are working to protect the yellow-breasted bunting from further decline.
Look at that yellow-breasted bunting perched on the branch!
I saw a beautiful yellow-breasted bunting in the garden.
Birdwatchers traveled to Siberia to observe the elusive yellow-breasted bunting in its natural environment.
Conservationists are working to protect the yellow-breasted bunting from further decline.
The yellow-breasted bunting has become increasingly rare due to habitat loss.

Synonyms

Emberiza aureola

vsyellow-breasted bunting

Specialized

9.9

A small bunting with a bright yellow chest called the yellow-breasted bunting found in Russia and Siberia

is the common everyday name used to refer to that species

Surface Forms

yellow-breasted bunting singular

yellow-breasted buntings plural

Morphology

yellow-breasted + bunting

The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'yellow-breasted' describes having a yellow breast/underparts and 'bunting' names a small songbird, so the meaning 'a bunting with yellow underparts' is directly derivable. This color + body-part + animal pattern is common across languages and follows normal English noun modification, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would understand it.

Etymology

Yellow-breasted bunting is named for the bird's bright yellow chest (yellow-breasted) and for the kind of bird it is, a bunting, meaning a 'small songbird'. Seeing that yellow chest made it easy to tell this bird apart, so the name describes how the bird looks.