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WAXWING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("waxwing" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waxwing"):

Bombycilla cedrorun; cedar waxwing; cedarbird (widely distributed over temperate North America)

Bohemian waxwing; Bombycilla garrulus (large waxwing of northern North America; similar to but larger than the cedar waxwing)

Holonyms ("waxwing" is a member of...):

Bombycilla; genus bombycilla (waxwings)

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