garden warbler

noun

1. any of several small brownish-grey European songbirds of the genus Sylvia (warblers), esp S. borin, common in woods and hedges: in some parts of Europe they are esteemed as a delicacy

Example Sentences

And the garden warbler is by no means found in every garden; probably I did not hear it more than twice.

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Beccafico, a European bird (Sylvia hortensis), the garden-warbler.

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In size it is somewhat greater than the Garden Warbler, which it resembles in its homely attire.

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The garden-warbler, too, is quite a stranger, and I have never recognised it in these parts at all.

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