waxwing

wax·wing

W0064000 (wăks′wĭng′)n. Any of several birds of the genus Bombycilla of the Northern Hemisphere, having a crested head, grayish-brown plumage, and usually waxy red tips on the wing feathers.

waxwing

(ˈwæksˌwɪŋ) n (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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n. any of several crested songbirds of the family Bombycillidae, of the Northern Hemisphere, having certain feathers tipped with a red, waxy substance. [1810–20]

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waxwing - brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tipsoscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatusBombycilla, genus bombycilla - waxwingsBombycilla cedrorun, cedar waxwing, cedarbird - widely distributed over temperate North AmericaBohemian waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus - large waxwing of northern North America; similar to but larger than the cedar waxwing

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waxwing

waxwing,

any of three species of perching songbirds of the Northern Hemisphere. Waxwings have crests (raised only in alarm) and sleek brownish-gray plumage with flecks of red pigment resembling sealing wax on the wings and a yellow band on the tail tip. The cedar waxwing, called cherry bird and cedar bird, breeds throughout most of Canada and the United States. The Bohemian, or greater, waxwing is more northern in distribution, ranging into the United States only rarely in winter. It is found in N Europe and Asia as well as in N North America. The third species, the Japanese waxwing, is found only in NE Asia. Waxwings are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Bombycillidae, genus Bombycilla.

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noun brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips

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