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waxwing
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wax·wing  (wkswng)
n.
Any of several birds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, grayish-brown plumage, and waxy red tips on the wing feathers.
waxwing [ˈwæksˌwɪŋ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of several gregarious passerine songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, esp B. garrulus, having red waxy wing tips and crested heads: family Bombycillidae
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Noun1.waxwing - brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tipswaxwing - brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips
oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
Bombycilla, genus bombycilla - waxwings
Bombycilla cedrorun, cedar waxwing, cedarbird - widely distributed over temperate North America
Bohemian waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus - large waxwing of northern North America; similar to but larger than the cedar waxwing
Translations
waxwing [ˈwæksˌwɪŋ] n → beccofrusone m
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Indeed, during the winter of 2004-05, France witnessed a large and unexpected invasion of Bohemian waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus) (10), a species known to migrate from circumpolar areas where pseudotuberculosis is endemic.
Sudden onset of pseudotuberculosis in humans, France, 2004-05 by Vincent, Pascal; Leclercq, Alexandre; Martin, Liliane; Duez, Jean-Marie; Simonet, Michel; Carniel, E / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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