ROCK WREN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rock wren mean? 

• ROCK WREN (noun)
  The noun ROCK WREN has 2 senses:

1. short-tailed bird resembling a wren

2. wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico

  Familiarity information: ROCK WREN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCK WREN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short-tailed bird resembling a wren

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

rock wren; Xenicus gilviventris

Hypernyms ("rock wren" is a kind of...):

New Zealand wren (birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens)

Holonyms ("rock wren" is a member of...):

genus Xenicus; Xenicus (type genus for the Xenicidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

rock wren; Salpinctes obsoletus

Hypernyms ("rock wren" is a kind of...):

jenny wren; wren (any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects)

Holonyms ("rock wren" is a member of...):

genus Salpinctes; Salpinctes (a genus of Troglodytidae)