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Brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips
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waxwing
Word definitions for waxwing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waxwing \Wax"wing`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Waxwing was a British solid rocket motor used for apogee kick as the 3rd (upper) stage of the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicles. Waxwing was used to successfully place the Prospero X-3 satellite into low Earth orbit on 28 October 1971, Britain's only ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several songbirds of the genus ''Bombycilla'', having crested heads, and red tips to the wings.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, from wax (n.) + wing (n.). So called for appendages at the tips of its feathers which look like red sealing-wax.
Usage examples of waxwing.
He knew how the forms of life branched out from willowherb to bog orchid, waxwing to grebe, elm to paulownia, cichlid to sea-squirt.
A cedar waxwing swinging on the end of a tree limb gave me a sharp look through his black robber's mask, decided I was mad but harmless, and went about his business.
Something brown and yellow that kept whizzing past the porch was a cedar waxwing.
Charlie pointed out particular birds: cedar waxwings feeding on red berries in a chokecherry tree, a redheaded woodpecker tat-tatting away on a dead oak.
They had seen cedar waxwings so calm and gentle and distinguished moving in their lovely elegance with the magic wax touches on their wing coverts and their tails, and Littless had said, “They’re the most beautiful, Nickie.