THRUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrush mean? 

• THRUSH (noun)
  The noun THRUSH has 3 senses:

1. candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults

2. a woman who sings popular songs

3. songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast

  Familiarity information: THRUSH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

candidiasis; monilia disease; moniliasis (an infection caused by fungi of the genus Monilia or Candida (especially Candida albicans))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A woman who sings popular songs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

Hylocichla fuscescens; veery; Wilson's thrush (tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song)

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

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

bluebird (blue North American songbird)

wheatear (small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump)

redstart; redtail (European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins)

solitaire (a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song)

chat; Old World chat (songbirds having a chattering call)

Luscinia luscinia; thrush nightingale (large nightingale of eastern Europe)

Luscinia megarhynchos; nightingale (European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song)

Hylocichla mustelina; wood thrush (large thrush common in eastern American woodlands; noted for its melodious song)

hermit thrush; Hylocichla guttata (North American thrush noted for its complex and appealing song)

clay-colored robin; Turdus greyi (robin of Mexico and Central America)

American robin; robin; Turdus migratorius (large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomen)

ring blackbird; ring ouzel; ring thrush; Turdus torquatus (European thrush common in rocky areas; the male has blackish plumage with a white band around the neck)

blackbird; European blackbird; merl; merle; ousel; ouzel; Turdus merula (common black European thrush)

redwing; Turdus iliacus (small European thrush having reddish flanks)

fieldfare; snowbird; Turdus pilaris (medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter)

mavis; song thrush; throstle; Turdus philomelos (common Old World thrush noted for its song)

missel thrush; mistle thrush; mistletoe thrush; Turdus viscivorus (large European thrush that feeds on mistletoe berries)

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

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

 Context examples 

Then he took up his bow, and down fell the thrush into the bushes at the foot of the tree.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I remember, a thrush had the confidence to snatch out of my hand, with his bill, a of cake that Glumdalclitch had just given me for my breakfast.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I knew this meant, in our local dialect, like two young thrushes, and received it as a compliment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Viral infections include cytomegalovirus (CMV) and hepatitis C. Fungi cause thrush (candidiasis), cryptococcal meningitis, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and histoplasmosis, and parasites cause crypto (cryptosporidiosis) and toxo (toxoplasmosis).

(HIV/AIDS and Infections, NIH)

Also called candidosis and thrush.

(Candidiasis, NCI Dictionary)

Th17 cells are known to protect against oral thrush, a fungal infection of the mouth, but they are also linked to inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis and colitis, suggesting that they play dual roles in health and disease.

(Researchers identify immune culprits linked to inflammation and bone loss in gum disease, National Institutes of Health)

Also called candidiasis and thrush.

(Candidosis, NCI Dictionary)

He had not gone far before he met an old miser: close by them stood a tree, and on the topmost twig sat a thrush singing away most joyfully.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The young girl was occupied in arranging the cottage; but presently she took something out of a drawer, which employed her hands, and she sat down beside the old man, who, taking up an instrument, began to play and to produce sounds sweeter than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)