Its authors speculate that kombucha “may be very healthful” in combating yeast infections, thrush, and other forms of candidiasis.
No, the thrush is not a migrant in the sense that the nightingale is or the turtle-dove.
Not once more did I close my happy eyes Amid the thrush's song.
But she heard the chirrup of the sparrows, the call of thrush and blackbird, and far away the hymn of praise of the skylark.
In every square, a thrush stretching out its neck to peck a currant.
Judith awakened that morning with the song of the first thrush sounding in her ears.
It might have been the song of a twilight bird, a thrush, a mocking-bird.
The exquisite notes of the cardinal, then of a thrush, accompanied their voices.
This is the thrush most likely to be seen in the Eastern Himalayas.
“Oh, it is where it always was, and where it always will be,” said the thrush.
type of songbird, Old English þyrsce (related to throstle), from Proto-Germanic *thruskjon (cf. Old Norse þröstr, Norwegian trost, Old High German drosca), from PIE *trozdo- (cf. Latin turdus, Lithuainian strazdas "thrush," Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy "starling," Old Church Slavonic drozgu, Russian drozdu).
throat disease, 1660s, probably from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian, Danish trøske, Swedish torsk), but its roots and original meaning are unclear.
thrush (thrŭsh)
n.
A contagious disease caused by a fungus, Candida albicans, that occurs most often in infants and children, characterized by small whitish eruptions on the mouth, throat, and tongue, and usually accompanied by fever, colic, and diarrhea.
