jenny wren (redirected from jenny wrens)

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

jenny wren - any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects wren passeriform bird, passerine - perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless family Troglodytidae, Troglodytidae - wrens Troglodytes troglodytes, winter wren - small wren of coniferous forests of northern hemisphere house wren, Troglodytes aedon - common American wren that nests around houses marsh wren - a wren of the genus Cistothorus that frequents marshes Salpinctes obsoletus, rock wren - wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico Carolina wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus - large United States wren with a musical call cactus wren - large harsh-voiced American wren of arid regions of the United States southwest and Mexico

Translations

jenny wren

n → Zaunkönigweibchen nt; (in children’s stories) → Frau Zaunkönig