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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. migratory American songbird;
[syn: bobolink, ricebird, reedbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus]
2. small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa;
[syn: sedge warbler, sedge bird, sedge wren, reedbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reedbird \Reed"bird`\ (r?d"b?rd`), n. (Zool.) (a) The bobolink. (b) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch[oe]nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bobolink \Bob"o*link`\, n. (Zool.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. [1913 Webster] The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] Bobsled
