warbler

noun

Any of various small New World songbirds of the family Parulidae, many of which have brightly colored plumage or markings, as the redstart and the yellowthroat.

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Any of various small, often brownish or grayish Old World songbirds of the family Silviidae, as the blackcap and the whitethroat.

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One that warbles; a singer.

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One who or that which warbles; a singer; a songster.

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Specifically, any one of a great number of small oscine passerine birds, or dentirostral insessorial birds, of different families and many different genera, of both the Old World and the New.

noun

In bagpipe music, an appoggiatura, or similar melodic embellishment.

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One of the golden warblers, Dendrœca ruficapilla, of the West Indies.

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The Canadian fly-catching warbler.

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The yellow-rumped warbler. Pennant, 1785. Also umbrose warbler.

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The carbonated warbler.