wood thrush
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8.1
- noun
- /wʊd θrʌʃ/
- US
:
zorzal de madera
- During our hike, we paused to listen to the lovely song of a wood thrush echoing through the woodland.
- wood thrush song
- wood thrush nests
Examples
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As I walked through the forest, I was enchanted by the sweet melody of a wood thrush singing in the trees.
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Its keeper was Orisyn, who is shown with or as a wood thrush.
Fiction book (1993) -
We searched for the flutist melodies of wood thrush and heard deer crash through the bush.
Fiction book (1996) -
Stutchbury recapped recent research on wood thrushes, sweet-singing birds of eastern forests whose numbers have dropped by half since the 1960s.
Blog text (2) -
Of the 4 species tested in this study, wood thrushes (H. mustelina) had the highest reservoir competence of all birds tested (5.6%), but the other 3 bird species were also able to transmit the pathogen, albeit at low levels (<4%).
Academic text (2012) -
In spring, the wood thrush can often be heard singing at dawn, filling the air with its beautiful tunes.
Synonyms
A brown songbird from North America with a clear flute-like song
A North American bird with a clear, flute-like song that lives in forests
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound denotes a thrush associated with woods, so its meaning is directly derivable from 'wood' (woodland) + 'thrush' (a melodious bird). This species-naming, noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Wood thrush is a name that comes from a simple picture: a thrush (a brown songbird) living in the wood (a forest). People noticed its clear, beautiful song in the trees, so today wood thrush means 'a songbird found in woods'.