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JENNY WREN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects

Synonyms:

jenny wren; wren

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("jenny wren" is a kind of...):

passeriform bird; passerine (perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless)

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

Troglodytes troglodytes; winter wren (small wren of coniferous forests of northern hemisphere)

house wren; Troglodytes aedon (common American wren that nests around houses)

marsh wren (a wren of the genus Cistothorus that frequents marshes)

rock wren; Salpinctes obsoletus (wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico)

Carolina wren; Thryothorus ludovicianus (large United States wren with a musical call)

cactus wren (large harsh-voiced American wren of arid regions of the United States southwest and Mexico)

Holonyms ("jenny wren" is a member of...):

family Troglodytidae; Troglodytidae (wrens)

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