reedling
Origin of reedling
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How to use reedling in a sentence
At the end of the hedge which is near a brook, a sedge-reedling takes up his residence in the spring.
Nature Near London | Richard JefferiesHere a brook-sparrow or sedge-reedling takes up his quarters in the spring, and chatters on, day and night, through the summer.
Nature Near London | Richard JefferiesThe latter sings in one bush and the sedge-reedling in another close together.
Nature Near London | Richard JefferiesThis is the appearance of his home when the sedge-reedling returns to it.
The Hills and the Vale | Richard Jefferies
British Dictionary definitions for reedling
/ (ˈriːdlɪŋ) /
a titlike Eurasian songbird, Panurus biarmicus, common in reed beds: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc). It has a tawny back and tail and, in the male, a grey-and-black head: Also called: bearded tit
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