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thrush
1[ thruhsh ]
noun
- any of numerous, medium-sized songbirds of the family Turdinae, usually dull brown and often speckled below, and including many outstanding singers.
- any of various superficially similar birds, as the water thrushes.
- Slang. a female professional singer, especially of popular songs.
thrush
2[ thruhsh ]
noun
- Pathology. a disease, especially in children, characterized by whitish spots and ulcers on the membranes of the mouth, fauces, etc., caused by a parasitic fungus, Candida albicans.
- Veterinary Pathology. (in horses) a diseased condition of the frog of the foot.
thrush
1/ θrʌʃ /
noun
- a fungal disease of the mouth, esp of infants, and the genitals, characterized by the formation of whitish spots and caused by infection with the fungus Candida albicans
- another word for sprue 1
- a softening of the frog of a horse's hoof characterized by degeneration and a thick foul discharge
thrush
2/ θrʌʃ /
noun
- any songbird of the subfamily Turdinae, esp those having a brown plumage with a spotted breast, such as the mistle thrush and song thrush: family Muscicapidae Compare water thrush turdine
thrush
/ thrŭsh /
- An infectious disease, caused by the fungus Candida albicans, characterized by small whitish eruptions on the mouth, throat, and tongue, and sometimes accompanied by fever, colic, and diarrhea. Thrush is most often seen in infants, children, and people with impaired immune systems.
- A degenerative condition of a horse's foot, usually caused by unhygienic management.
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- thrushlike adjective
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Example Sentences
Its authors speculate that kombucha “may be very healthful” in combating yeast infections, thrush, and other forms of candidiasis.
In the fork of two high branches was a great round nest—oh ever so much bigger than the thrush's and the oriole's.
She was twelve years his senior but well preserved and "plump as a thrush after harvest."
As she worked, a wood thrush called far off, his last long-drawn note ringing like a sweet, wistful fairy horn.
We walked on so together to the spot where we first had met, and where first the thrush had sounded for us his elfin clarion.
A wood-thrush flitted from a ravine as she and Bub went back down the creek—and she stopped with uplifted face to listen.
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