WAXWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waxwing mean? 

• WAXWING (noun)
  The noun WAXWING has 1 sense:

1. brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips

  Familiarity information: WAXWING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAXWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

Bombycilla cedrorun; cedar waxwing; cedarbird (widely distributed over temperate North America)

Bohemian waxwing; Bombycilla garrulus (large waxwing of northern North America; similar to but larger than the cedar waxwing)

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

Bombycilla; genus bombycilla (waxwings)