SONGBIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does songbird mean? 

• SONGBIRD (noun)
  The noun SONGBIRD has 1 sense:

1. any bird having a musical call

  Familiarity information: SONGBIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SONGBIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any bird having a musical call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

songbird; songster

Hypernyms ("songbird" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

 Context examples 

"The sense of smell has been understudied in birds, particularly songbirds, because they frequently have such impressive plumage and song variation," says Rice.

(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)

The tool's name refers to the fine, almost invisible, "mist nets" with which ornithologists capture migratory songbirds.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

"Other work has documented that some songbird species can smell, and prefer their own species' odors, but this is the first example in currently hybridizing species that we know of."

(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)

That's the news from a study out of Lehigh University, the first to document naturally hybridizing songbirds' preference for the smell of their own species.

(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)