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TRUE WARBLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small active brownish or greyish Old World birds
Synonyms:
Old World warbler; true warbler
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("true warbler" is a kind of...):
warbler (a small active songbird)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "true warbler"):
blackcap; Silvia atricapilla (small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown)
Phylloscopus sibilatrix; wood warbler (European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage)
Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; reedbird; sedge bird; sedge warbler; sedge wren (small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa)
wren warbler (small Asiatic and African bird; constructs nests like those of tailorbirds)
Orthotomus sutorius; tailorbird (tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest)
Holonyms ("true warbler" is a member of...):
family Sylviidae; Sylviidae (in some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers)
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