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Grayish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and underparts
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whitethroat
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (taxlink Sylvia communis species noshow=1), a species of typical warbler.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whitethroat \White"throat`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species ( Sylvia cinerea ), called also strawsmear , nettlebird , muff , and whitecap , the garden whitethroat , or golden warbler ( Sylvia ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. Old World warbler similar to the greater whitethroat but smaller [syn: lesser whitethroat , Sylvia curruca ] grayish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and underparts [syn: greater whitethroat , Sylvia communis ] common North American finch ...
Usage examples of whitethroat.
If the whitethroat eggs were taken from the nest and placed among particoloured pebbles such as are common on some shores, it would need care to distinguish them.
On the other he had sketched with a few deft strokes of a felt-tipped pen a pair of whitethroats in a sycamore tree.
Angling and disputing for positions at her feet and over various parts of her accommodating body were a whitethroat, a fieldfare, a willowwren, a nuthatch, a tree-pipit, a sand martin, a red-backed shrike, a goldfinch, a yellow bunting, two jays, a greater spotted woodpecker, three moorhens (on her lap with a mallard, a woodcock, and a curlew), a wagtail, four missel thrushes, six blackbirds, a nightingale and twentyseven sparrows.