Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A reddish-brown thrush (Catharus fuscescens) of the Americas, having an indistinctly spotted breast.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Wilson's or the tawny thrush of North America, Turdus (Hylocichla) fuscescens, one of the five songthrushes common in the eastern parts of the United States.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Possibly imitative of its song.]

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  • The winds so sweet with birch and fern

    A sweeter memory blow;

    And there in spring the veeries sing

    The song of long ago.

    - John Greenleaf Whittier, 'My Playmate'.

    September 16, 2009

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    September 16, 2009

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    September 16, 2009