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Waxwing

//ˈwæksˌwɪŋ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings.

    "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky."

  2. 2
    brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the Northern Hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips wordnet

Etymology

From wax + wing.

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