english a DC ~ 3 rare (1898-) for sense 1.
   1 Related to the Church of England.
   1887 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 1 There is to be a grand Jubilee Service at the English Cathedral. P 148-64 English Board: the Church of England [School] Board. T 43/4-64 It's an English mission at Hopedale, a mission from the Church of England. 1966 PADDOCK 121 English Church: The Anglican Church.
   2 In designations of birds and plants identified with England, esp in contrast with other indigenous varieties: english blackberry, ~ blackbird, ~ blueberry, ~ fern, ~ gull, ~ woodpecker.
    1895 N S Inst of Sci ix. 92 English blackberry—local term for Thimbleberry or Bramble. 1964 Evening Telegram 28 Oct, p. 5 Thus, in my part of the country starlings are universally described as 'English blackbirds.' And that is exactly what they are—blackbirds which immigrated from England—though how the people who gave them their local name knew this escapes me. 1956 ROULEAU 29 English Blueberry [dwarf bilberry]: Vaccinium cespitosum. Ibid 29 English Fern: Tanacetum vulgare. 1959 MCATEE 36 English gull. Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus). As a distinctive kind; it does, however, occur in England. 'Labr.') 1870 Can Naturalist v, 152 [The flicker] is called the 'English Woodpecker,' and is fairly common. It has a peculiar note, which bears a fancied resemblance to that of the green Woodpecker.

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