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GENUS ERITHACUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Old World thrushes

Synonyms:

Erithacus; genus Erithacus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Erithacus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Erithacus"):

Erithacus rubecola; Old World robin; redbreast; robin; robin redbreast (small Old World songbird with a reddish breast)

bluethroat; Erithacus svecicus (songbird of northern Europe and Asia)

Holonyms ("genus Erithacus" is a member of...):

family Turdidae; Turdidae (thrushes; in some classifications considered a subfamily (Turdinae) of the family Muscicapidae)

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