WOOD WARBLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood warbler mean? 

• WOOD WARBLER (noun)
  The noun WOOD WARBLER has 2 senses:

1. small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song

2. European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage

  Familiarity information: WOOD WARBLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD WARBLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

New World warbler; wood warbler

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

warbler (a small active songbird)

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

northern parula; Parula americana; parula warbler (small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast; of eastern North America)

Wilson's blackcap; Wilson's warbler; Wilsonia pusilla (yellow wood warbler with a black crown)

flycatching warbler (any of numerous American wood warblers that feed on insects caught on the wing)

Cape May warbler; Dendroica tigrina (North American wood warbler; olive green and yellow striped with black)

Dendroica petechia; golden warbler; yellow warbler; yellowbird (yellow-throated American wood warbler)

Blackburn; Blackburnian warbler; Dendroica fusca (black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat)

Audubon's warbler; Audubon warbler; Dendroica auduboni (common warbler of western North America)

Dendroica coronata; myrtle bird; myrtle warbler (similar to Audubon's warbler)

blackpoll; Dendroica striate (North American warbler having a black-and-white head)

chat; New World chat (birds having a chattering call)

ovenbird; Seiurus aurocapillus (American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground)

water thrush (brownish North American warbler found near streams)

yellowthroat (small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat)

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

family Parulidae; Parulidae (New World warblers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Phylloscopus sibilatrix; wood warbler

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

Old World warbler; true warbler (small active brownish or greyish Old World birds)