saxicola torquata

1. 1.

   common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast

   Synonymsstonechat

   BroaderOld World chat

Questions about saxicola torquata

What does saxicola torquata mean?

saxicola torquata means "common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast".

What is another word for saxicola torquata?

Close synonyms include stonechat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saxicola torquata a common word?

saxicola torquata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.