Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The bobolink, Dclichonyx oryzivorus: so called in the late summer and early fall months, when the male has exchanged his black-and-buff dress for a plain yellowish streaked plumage like that of the female, and when it throngs the marshes in great flocks, becomes very fat, and is highly esteemed for the table.
  • noun A reed-warbler.

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

  • noun The bobolink.
  • noun (Zoöl.) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Schœnicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.

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

  • noun The bobolink.
  • noun One of several small Asiatic songbirds of the genera Schoenicola and Eurycercus.

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

  • noun migratory American songbird
  • noun small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa

Etymologies

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reed +‎ bird

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  • See bobolink.

    July 8, 2010