gnatwren

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several birds of various genera in the family Polioptilidae which are browner and more thickset, and have proportionally shorter tails and longer bills, than their relatives the soft blue-grey gnatcatchers.

Word forms

gnatwren gnatwrens

Etymology

From gnat + wren.

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