Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Either one of two small woodland birds of Europe, belonging to the subfamily Sylviinæ.
- noun A supposed species of true wren, described by Audubon in 1834 as Troglodytes americanus, but not different from the common house-wren of the United States.
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We sought in the wood, and we found the wood-wren in her stead;
Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Jean Ingelow 1858
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