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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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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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