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waxwing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun waxwing has 1 sense
- waxwing(n = noun.animal) Array - brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips; Array is a kind of oscine, oscine bird
is a member of bombycilla, genus bombycilla
has particulars: bombycilla cedrorun, cedar waxwing, cedarbird, bohemian waxwing, bombycilla garrulus
CIDE DICTIONARY
waxwing, n.
Any one of several species of small birds of the genus Ampelis , in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with small horny ornaments resembling red sealing wax. The Bohemian waxwing (see under Bohemian) and the cedar bird are examples. Called also waxbird . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
waxwing, n. any bird of the genus Bombycilla, with small tips like red sealing-wax to some wing-feathers.
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