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hermit thrush
noun
- a North American thrush, Hylocichla guttata, noted for its complex and appealing song.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hermit thrush1
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Example Sentences
Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.
Back in the deep woods a hermit thrush was singing his chant to the rising sun.
Then, from the depths of the foliage came a voice as shy and as plaintive as that of the hermit thrush, murmuring, "It's Wimley!"
And from a thick maple on the edge of a clearing a hermit-thrush fluted slowly over and over his cloistral ecstasy.
These are the chickadee, the white-throated sparrow, and the hermit-thrush.
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