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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

wood warbler

1. (Animals) a European woodland warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix, with a dull yellow plumage

2. (Animals) another name for the American warbler. See warbler³

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war•bler

(ˈwɔr blər)

n.

1. Also called wood warbler. any of numerous small New World songbirds of the subfamily Parulinae (family Emberizidae), many species of which are brightly colored.

2. any of numerous small, chiefly Old World songbirds of the subfamily Sylviinae (family Muscicapidae).

3. a person or thing that warbles.

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Noun	1.	wood warbler - small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song New World warbler warbler - a small active songbird family Parulidae, Parulidae - New World warblers northern parula, Parula americana, parula warbler - small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast; of eastern North America Wilsonia pusilla, Wilson's blackcap, Wilson's warbler - yellow wood warbler with a black crown flycatching warbler - any of numerous American wood warblers that feed on insects caught on the wing Cape May warbler, Dendroica tigrina - North American wood warbler; olive green and yellow striped with black Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler, yellowbird - yellow-throated American wood warbler Blackburn, Blackburnian warbler, Dendroica fusca - black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat Audubon warbler, Audubon's warbler, Dendroica auduboni - common warbler of western North America Dendroica coronata, myrtle bird, myrtle warbler - similar to Audubon's warbler blackpoll, Dendroica striate - North American warbler having a black-and-white head New World chat, chat - birds having a chattering call ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus - American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground water thrush - brownish North American warbler found near streams yellowthroat - small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat
	2.	wood warbler - European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage Phylloscopus sibilatrix Old World warbler, true warbler - small active brownish or greyish Old World birds

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