wood warbler
a yellowish-green European warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix.
Origin of wood warbler
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How to use wood warbler in a sentence
Our bird is one of the wood warbler family, a quiet and little known group of birds.
I cannot recall ever having seen any other wood warbler eat banana.
I have always been able to recognize it by the explosive ending, which I never heard from any other wood warbler.
Three other tantalizing little members of this numerous tribe are the chiff-chaff, willow-warbler, and wood-warbler.
Birds in Flight | W. P. PycraftThough a wood warbler it prefers the shrubby growths in low and well-watered places rather than the forest.
British Dictionary definitions for wood warbler
a European woodland warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix, with a dull yellow plumage
another name for the American warbler: See warbler (def. 3)
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