Meaning Of The Word Waxwing
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Waxwing Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Waxwing?
waxwing in American English
any of several fruit-eating passerine birds (family Bombycillidae) of the Northern Hemisphere, with brown or gray silky plumage, a showy crest, and scarlet waxlike tips on the secondary wing feathers, as the cedar waxwing noun: any of several songbirds of the family Bombycillidae, having a showy crest and certain feathers tipped with a red, waxy material, as Bombycilla garrulus ( Bohemian waxwing), of the Northern Hemisphere waxwing in British English noun: any of several gregarious passerine songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, esp B. garrulus, having red waxy wing tips and crested heads: family Bombycillidae |
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