wren
See also: Wren
English
Alternative forms
- wran (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English wrenne, wranne, from Old English wrenna, wrænna, werna, wærna, wrenne (“wren”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrandijō, from Proto-Germanic *wrandijô (“wren”).
Cognate with Old Saxon wrendilo (“wren”), Old High German rento, rentilo (“wren”), Danish rindel (“wren”), Icelandic rindill (“wren”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɛn/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun
wren (plural wrens)
- Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).
- Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; a true wren.
- Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.
Derived terms
- Bewick's wren
- black-bellied wren
- blue wren (Maluridae spp.)
- cactus wren
- canyon wren
- Carolina wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus spp.)
- emu-wren
- fairy wren
- fairy-wren
- fairywren (Malurini spp.)
- fasciated wren
- golden-crested wren
- heath-wren
- house wren
- jenny wren
- Lambert's wren
- Lyall's wren
- marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris)
- New Zealand wren
- reed wren
- rock wren
- scrubwren (Sericornis spp.)
- sedge wren
- short-billed marsh wren
- Stephens Island wren
- streaked wren-babbler
- striped wren-babbler
- tule wren
- willow wren
- winter wren
- wrenboy
- Wren Day
- wrenthrush (Zeledonia coronata)
- wren-tit
- Zapata wren
Translations
bird of family Troglodytidae
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References
- “wren”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Middle English
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