Wrens

[ renz ]

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noun

, (used with a singular or plural verb)

the Women's Royal Naval Service: established in 1917 as an auxiliary to the Royal Navy.

Origin of Wrens¹

Pronounced form of the initial letters, with placement of vowel suggested by wren

The wrens and the nuthatches and chickadees succeed to these abandoned cavities, and often have amusing disputes over them.

The nuthatches frequently pass the night in them, and the wrens and chickadees nest in them.

Doves, wrens, and robins are birds of good omen, and the many superstitions regarding them are all associated with good luck.

More devoted homebodies than these little wrens are not among the feathered tribe.

Evidently the wrens, as a family, are not far removed in the evolutionary scale from true water-birds.

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