babbler
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How to use babbler in a sentence
Like humans and other babblers, the behavior started early in development, a little over two weeks after the bats’ birth.
These baby greater sac-winged bats babble to learn their mating songs | Jonathan Lambert | August 19, 2021 | Science NewsThe bats may not babble exactly like other known babblers, says Pralle Kriengwatana, a behavioral biologist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland who wasn’t involved in the study.
These baby greater sac-winged bats babble to learn their mating songs | Jonathan Lambert | August 19, 2021 | Science NewsFiguratively the term is used to designate an empty babbler.
Pisistratus could not feel flattered by passages intended to exhibit his ancestor as a conceited and inopportune old babbler.
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangThe eggs of this cuckoo are blue, but are distinguishable from those of the babbler by their larger size.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas Dewar
When it sees a babbler approaching with food, the cuckoo cries out and flaps its wings vigorously.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarOur Yankee, like the Roman babbler, had abundance of time to discourse on fifty different subjects.
British Dictionary definitions for babbler
/ (ˈbæblə) /
a person who babbles
any of various insect-eating birds of the Old World tropics and subtropics that have a loud incessant song: family Muscicapidae (warblers, thrushes, etc)
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