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hermit thrush

noun

  1. 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

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

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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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