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TITMOUSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: titmice   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small insectivorous birds

Synonyms:

tit; titmouse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

chickadee (any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America)

Parus bicolor; tufted titmouse (crested titmouse of eastern and midwestern United States)

blue tit; Parus caeruleus; tomtit (widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head)

bush tit; bushtit (active grey titmice of western North America)

Chamaea fasciata; wren-tit (small brown bird of California resembling a wren)

Auriparus flaviceps; verdin (very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America)

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

family Paridae; Paridae (titmice and chickadees)

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