winter wren

noun

small wren of coniferous forests of northern hemisphere

• Syn: ↑Troglodytes troglodytes

• Hypernyms: ↑wren, ↑jenny wren

• Member Holonyms: ↑Troglodytes, ↑genus Troglodytes

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noun

: a very small wren (Troglodytes troglodytes hiemalis) of the coniferous forests of the northern United States and Canada that migrates southward in winter, is dark cinnamon brown barred with black, and is the American representative of the common European wren

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(in the Western Hemisphere) a small wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, of coniferous forests.

[1800-10, Amer.]

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winter wren,

a small, short-tailed wren of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.