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Wilson's thrush

Wilson's thrush

8.2
A small brown songbird from eastern North America with a sweet flute-like song
  • noun
  • /ˈwɪlsənz θrʌʃ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mirlo de Wilson
  • We saw a Wilson's thrush singing in the maple forest at dawn.

Examples

  • The lovely flute-like call of the Wilson's thrush echoed across the wetland.

  • Researchers studied the migration patterns of Wilson's thrushes in eastern North America.

  • Look, a Wilson's thrush!

  • What a beautiful Wilson's thrush!

  • The lovely flute-like call of the Wilson's thrush echoed across the wetland.

  • We saw a Wilson's thrush singing in the maple forest at dawn.

  • Researchers studied the migration patterns of Wilson's thrushes in eastern North America.

Synonyms

veery
vsWilson's thrush
  • US
9.9

A small brown songbird from North America that sings a long, beautiful song

is an alternative name for the same bird

Surface Forms

Wilson's thrush singular
Wilson's thrushes plural

Morphology

Wilson's + thrush

This is a possessive proper-name + noun combination: 'Wilson's' indicates association or eponymy and 'thrush' is a bird, so a learner who knows both constituents will infer it refers to a kind of thrush (a bird) associated with or named after Wilson. The exact species name (veery) is not predictable from the parts, but the basic meaning 'a type of thrush' is compositionally clear to B1 learners.

Etymology

Wilson's thrush comes from Alexander Wilson, an early bird watcher and writer who first described many North American birds. So Wilson's shows the bird was 'named after' Wilson and thrush is the type of bird, making the name mean the thrush linked to Wilson.