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Redwing

noun

North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings. Synonyms: Agelaius phoeniceus, red-winged blackbird.

Small European thrush having reddish flanks. Synonym: Turdus iliacus.

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"Redwing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Forest might be there too. Sure enough, Peter Rabbit was there on one side of the Smiling Pool, making faces at Reddy Fox, who was on the other side, which, of course, was not at all nice of Peter. Mr. and Mrs. Redwing were there, and Blacky the Crow was sitting in ...

— The Adventures of Buster Bear • Thornton W. Burgess

... continental as any other biped American. Nor is he like his cousins in changes of dress. Out of a dozen of the latter that may be brought down at a shot, you will scarcely find three exactly alike. They moult at the South, and the young pass gradually into adult plumage. The male redwing, up to his first autumn, is hardly distinguishable in dress from his mother. Here he dons his epaulettes, beginning with the threadbare worsted yellow of the private, and rising in grade to the rich scarlet and gold of the officer fully commissioned to flame upon the marsh and carry ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 • Various

Words linked to "Redwing" : Agelaius, Turdus iliacus, Turdus, red-winged blackbird, New World blackbird, thrush, Agelaius phoeniceus, genus Agelaius, blackbird, genus Turdus