reedbird

reedbird
noun
1. small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
Hypernyms: ↑Old World warbler, ↑true warbler
2. migratory American songbird
Hypernyms: ↑New World oriole, ↑American oriole, ↑oriole
Member Holonyms: ↑Dolichonyx, ↑genus Dolichonyx

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1. : bobolink — used especially of this bird when flocking in reedy marshes in fall and winter
2. : any of several small Asiatic timaliine birds of the genera Schoenicola and Laticilla

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/reed"berrd'/, n. Southern U.S.
bobolink.
[1640-50; REED + BIRD]

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