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Kinglet \King"let\, n.

  1. A little king; a weak or insignificant king.
    --Carlyle.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviid[ae].

    Note: The golden-crowned kinglet ( Regulus satrapa), and the rubycrowned kinglet ( Regulus calendula), are the most common American species. The common English kinglet ( Regulus cristatus) is also called golden-crested wren, moonie, and marigold finch. The kinglets are often popularly called wrens, both in America and England.

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wrens

n. (plural of wren English)

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Wrens, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 2314
Housing Units (2000): 1030
Land area (2000): 3.044465 sq. miles (7.885129 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006697 sq. miles (0.017346 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.051162 sq. miles (7.902475 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84456
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.208171 N, 82.387520 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30833
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Usage examples of "wrens".

Eight miles north of the Park, in a hut in a clearing in the forested estate of Gayhurst Manor, a clutch of tired Wrens near the end of their shift were being ordered to halt the three bombes running on Nuthatch (Berlin-Vienna-Belgrade Army administration), strip them and prepare them for Shark.

There were wrens, and owls not much bigger than the wrens, living in holes gouged in the cactuses, and always a scavenger vulture or two soaring in circles high above me.

He had been chasing about for the best part of nine hours and now he was supervising a changeover on one of the machines, still wearing his pyjamas under his overcoat, to the great amusement of the Wrens who tended the bombe.

Atwood was the champion cribster and the Wrens said cattily behind his back that these were the only kisses he had ever had.

It came away at last with a screech and the Wrens moved in to strip it.