Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various chiefly tropical African or Asian songbirds of the family Ploceidae, similar to the finches and characterized by the ability to build complex communal nests of intricately woven vegetation.
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- noun any of various
Old World passerine birds , resemblingfinches , that build complex, communal nests
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
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Examples
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She asks the weaverbird, the giraffe, and finally an old lion who tells her that “as sure as the rain comes, you will always know love when you have found it.”
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These birds include the quelea - a small, rather nondescript weaverbird that has replaced the locust as the most serious pest of small-grain crops in parts of Africa.
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The English or house sparrow, is a member of an old world group of birds that make up the weaverbird family.
All Stories 2012
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His small frame and coyness off stage belie the popularity and rising fortunes of a man whose stage name, Osogo means the weaverbird, most probably because of the bird's industry and ingenuity.
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His small frame and coyness off stage belie the popularity and rising fortunes of a man whose stage name, Osogo means the weaverbird, most probably because of the bird's industry and ingenuity.
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Underhill's colleague Dr Dieter Oschadleus, who is bird-ringing co-ordinator of Safring, says the red-billed quelea - one of 112 weaverbird species in the world - did not occur historically in the Western Cape but had in recent decades started expanding its range into the province.
unknown title 2009
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Underhill's colleague Dr Dieter Oschadleus, who is bird-ringing co-ordinator of Safring, says the red-billed quelea - one of 112 weaverbird species in the world - did not occur historically in the Western Cape but had in recent decades started expanding its range into the province.
Muti 2009
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The first thing that caught my eye when we arrived were trees festooned with pendulous weaverbird nests.
The Seattle Times 2008
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