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cedar waxwing
noun
- a North American waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum, having light yellowish-brown plumage.
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Example Sentences
The cedar waxwing is a strange bird, with a very pronounced species-individuality, totally unlike any other bird of our country.
Cherry-bird is another name which is appropriately applied to the cedar waxwing.
Cedar-bird, or cedar waxwing (Ampelis cedrorum), a small edition of the Bohemian waxwing; plumage of; notes of.
Male: splendid cardinal-red, with a black throat and band about the coral-red bill, and a fine long crest, like a Cedar Waxwing's.
Care sits lightly on the cedar waxwing's topknot, and he never takes his dangers seriously.
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