Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small grayish-brown songbird (Chamaea fasciata) resembling both a wren and a titmouse, inhabiting coastal scrub and chaparral from Oregon to Baja California.
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Examples
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The most common birds seen in the dry summer season are wrentit, common bushtit, and rufous-sided towhee.
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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"The first sound I usually hear is that of the wrentit, a secretive, little bird with a descending whistle that mimics the beat of a bouncing Ping-Pong ball."
Fires Turn Up Heat 2007
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I struggled with the wrentit, a bird whose family was totally new to me and whose compound name both offers and denies help, and with the golden-crowned kinglet, which looks so much like the European goldcrest but isn’t.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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