water thrush

American  

Or waterthrush

noun

1. either of two North American warblers, Seirus noveboracensis or S. motacilla, usually living near streams.

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water thrush British  

noun

1. either of two North American warblers, Seiurus motacilla or S. noveboracensis, having a brownish back and striped underparts and tending to occur near water

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Etymology

Origin of water thrush

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

From Project Gutenberg

Near the woody streams the so-called water thrushes spring up before us.

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Somewhere, from the branches below the Ridge, a water thrush gurgled a last joyous note that rippled liquid gold through the twilight.

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One bird, it is true, I found in this hammock, and not elsewhere: a single oven-bird, which, with one Northern water thrush and one Louisiana water thrush, completed my set of Florida Seiuri.

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