Ovenbird
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of several birds:; Originally, any of several small European birds that build dome-shaped nests; such as the long-tailed tit, willow warbler and chiffchaff.
- 2 small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests wordnet
- 3 Any of several birds:; An American warbler, Seiurus aurocapilla, that builds such a nest of vegetation.
- 4 American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground wordnet
- 5 Any of several birds:; Any bird of the Central and South America family Furnariidae.
Etymology
From oven + bird, from the shape of the nest.
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