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Definition of Reedbird
1. Noun. Migratory American songbird.
Generic synonyms: American Oriole, New World Oriole, Oriole
Group relationships: Dolichonyx, Genus Dolichonyx
2. Noun. Small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa.
Generic synonyms: Old World Warbler, True Warbler
Definition of Reedbird
1. n. The bobolink.
Definition of Reedbird
1. Noun. The bobolink. ¹
2. Noun. One of several small Asiatic songbirds of the genera ''Schoenicola'' and ''Eurycercus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reedbird
1. the bobolink [n -S] - See also: bobolink
Medical Definition of Reedbird
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Reedbird
Literary usage of Reedbird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"In describing this specimen,8 I have said that it was passing from the reedbird
to the black Bobolink plumage by a complete moult. In fact the only feathers ..."
2. The Tribune Almanac and Political Registerby Horace Greeley by Horace Greeley (1904)
"1; reedbird, ortolan or rail. Feb. 1-Sept. 1 ; duck, goose, brant, swan (except
summer or wood duck). ... 15-May 1; sora, water rail or ortolan, reedbird, ..."
3. Legislation for the Protection of Birds Other Than Game Birds by Theodore Sherman Palmer (1900)
"The bobolink, which is rigidly protected during its stay on its breeding grounds
in the Northern States, receives the name of reedbird as soon as it enters ..."
4. Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1921)
"He is no reedbird ordinary fellow; he is the soloist of comic ... the reedbird
on toast L. 7.35 inches of the epicure, the Robert of Lincoln of May lath the ..."
5. Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1921)
"... reedbird ordinary fellow; he is the soloist of comic his enemy the rice grower
of South Carolina! In appearance he and his mate are utterly different; ..."
6. Neighbours of Field, Wood, and Stream: Or, Through the Year with Nature's by Morton Grinnell (1901)
"... who said that he had seen Sora in Carolina, and that there Sora had snubbed
him, also, and had said that his name was reedbird. ..."
7. The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore by Ernest Thompson Seton (1921)
"Bobolink or reedbird. eighteen inches long and thirty wide. It makes itself a
nuisance in all the heavily wooded parts of E. North America. ..."
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