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Answer for the clue "Candidiasis of the oral cavity ", 6 letters:
thrush

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Word definitions for thrush in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
throat disease, 1660s, probably from a Scandinavian source (such as Norwegian, Danish trøske , Swedish torsk ), but its roots and original meaning are unclear.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 Any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae, often with spotted underbellies such as the bluebird, nightingale, and American Robin have. 2 (context US colloquial English) A female singer. Etymology 2 n. A fungal infection ...

Usage examples of thrush.

Walking home along the river wall, with the singing of the larks and thrushes, the rush of waters, the humming of the chafers in his ears, he felt that he would make something fine of this subject.

In the dip or valley at Long Ditton there are several meadows well timbered with elm, which are the favourite resorts of thrushes, and their song may be heard just there in the depth of winter, when it would be possible to go a long distance on the higher ground without hearing one.

Without controversy there be seven seen sorts, seventeen several sorts of hob- thrushes, and several sorts of divels, and if the humour took me I could name them all by rote.

In addition to rape, Selina is frightened of mice, spiders, dogs, toadstools, cancer, mastectomy, chipped mugs, ghost stories, visions, portents, fortune tellers, astrology columns, deep water, fires, floods, thrush, poverty, lightning, ectopic pregnancy, rust, hospitals, driving, swimming, flying and ageing.

Wild ducks, woodcocks, fieldfares, and curlews are coming now, besides thrushes, larks, and other small birds.

When frost prevents access to food in the east, thrushes and blackbirds move westwards, just as the fieldfares and redwings do.

And, as he walked there, so softly that he hardly disturbed the thrushes that busily tapped the dewy grass for supper, he knew suddenly that he was not alone, but that shadowy figures hid everywhere, watching, waiting, wondering like himself.

Accordingly your path was here beguiled with the warbling of a thousand birds, the full-toned blackbird, the mellow thrush, and the pensive nightingale.

A pair of Missel Thrush seeing a peacock too near their nest, charged full at him, and actually knocked him down.

She would never again feel like a missel thrush with a safe-hidden nest.

She jumped, until she realized it was a small, brown missel thrush with a white breast.

The missel thrush resumed her song, sweetly serenading the lovers while they took full advantage of their seclusion.

I really wanted to send you the ortolans, but in the end none have been found, and I hear they fly away when the thrushes arrive.

I should have set this bird down as a blue rock thrush or passero solitario, for I know these birds breed yearly on the Sacro Monte, and no bird sings so sweetly as they do, but we are expressly told that Caimi did not reach Varallo till the end of the year, and the passeri solitarii have all migrated by the end of August.

The last channel bellowed out in the unctious but exuberant voice of Thrush Limburger.