OLD WORLD WARBLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Old World warbler mean? 

• OLD WORLD WARBLER (noun)
  The noun OLD WORLD WARBLER has 1 sense:

1. small active brownish or greyish Old World birds

  Familiarity information: OLD WORLD WARBLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD WORLD WARBLER (noun)

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Meaning:

Small active brownish or greyish Old World birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Old World warbler; true warbler

Hypernyms ("Old World warbler" is a kind of...):

warbler (a small active songbird)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old World warbler"):

blackcap; Silvia atricapilla (small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown)

Phylloscopus sibilatrix; wood warbler (European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage)

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; reedbird; sedge bird; sedge warbler; sedge wren (small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa)

wren warbler (small Asiatic and African bird; constructs nests like those of tailorbirds)

Orthotomus sutorius; tailorbird (tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest)

Holonyms ("Old World warbler" is a member of...):

family Sylviidae; Sylviidae (in some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers)