TITMOUSE (titmice)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: titmice   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does titmouse mean? 

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

1. small insectivorous birds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TITMOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small insectivorous birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

tit; titmouse

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "titmouse"):

chickadee (any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America)

Parus bicolor; tufted titmouse (crested titmouse of eastern and midwestern United States)

blue tit; Parus caeruleus; tomtit (widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head)

bush tit; bushtit (active grey titmice of western North America)

Chamaea fasciata; wren-tit (small brown bird of California resembling a wren)

Auriparus flaviceps; verdin (very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America)

Holonyms ("titmouse" is a member of...):

family Paridae; Paridae (titmice and chickadees)