song thrush

American  

noun

1. a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.

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song thrush British  

noun

1. a common Old World thrush, Turdus philomelos, that has a brown back and spotted breast and is noted for its song

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Etymology

Origin of song thrush

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

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song thrush

But this new antagonist was no half-frozen, half-starved Continental song thrush.

From The Way of the Wild by Harry Rountree

He put his counterfeits, painted and marked like the originals, into the nests of the song thrush, the blackbird, and the grasshopper warbler, and in no case was the imposition detected.

From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

In the Trossachs, in Scotland, I followed a song thrush about for a long time, attracted by its peculiar song.

From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

As if to deny that, Bobby suddenly shot down the slope in answer to a cry of alarm from a song thrush.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

A song thrush on a budding tree near the window trilled forth his merry lay, and the maiden listened with light heart.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison