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    TRUE WARBLER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small active brownish or greyish Old World birdsplay

    Synonyms:

    Old World warbler; true warbler

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("true warbler" is a kind of...):

    warbler (a small active songbird)

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

    blackcap; Silvia atricapilla (small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown)

    Phylloscopus sibilatrix; wood warbler (European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage)

    Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; reedbird; sedge bird; sedge warbler; sedge wren (small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa)

    wren warbler (small Asiatic and African bird; constructs nests like those of tailorbirds)

    Orthotomus sutorius; tailorbird (tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest)

    Holonyms ("true warbler" is a member of...):

    family Sylviidae; Sylviidae (in some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers)

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