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Definition: Redwing |
RedwingNoun1. North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings. 2. Small European thrush having reddish flanks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Redwing Larger image Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Turdidae Genus: Turdus Species: iliacus Binomial name Turdus iliacus The Redwing, (Turdus iliacus) is a member of the thrush family Turdidae.
It breeds in conifer and birch forest and tundra in northern Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. It is a very rare breeder in Great Britain and Ireland, but winters in large numbers in these countries.
Redwings nest in shrubs or on the ground, laying several eggs in a neat nest. Migrating birds and wintering birds often form large flocks, often with fieldfares.
The Redwing is similar in size to the Song Thrush. It is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects and worms in summer, and berries in winter.
The sexes of Redwing are similar, with plain brown backs and streaked white underparts. The most striking identification features are the red flanks and underwing, and the white stripe above the eye.
The male has a varied short song, and a whistling flight call.
public domain image from a 1905 field guide
See also: Red-winged Blackbird, an unrelated North American species, which is an Icterid, family Icteridae.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Redwing."
Synonym: RedwingSynonym: red-winged blackbird (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Redwing |
| English words defined with "redwing": swamp blackbird, Swinepipe ♦ Whin Thrush, Wind rush, Windle, Winnard 2. (references) |
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 | Kayaker observing the marsh flora and fauna on a fall afternoon. A huge flock of redwing blackbirds rising from the marsh over the marsh grass. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A redwing blackbird perching atop reeds in a Patuxent river marsh. Arrow arum plants are in the foreground. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Redwing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 41.18% of the time. "Redwing" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 41.18% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 41.18% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "redwing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mëllenjë (blackbird, ring ouzel, Throstle, thrush). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид дрозд (redstart, storm cock). (various references) | |
Greek | είδοσ κίχλησ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szõlõrigó. (various references) | |
Manx | treshlen Loghlinagh, jiargan sniaghtee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edwingray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tordo-pisco. (various references) | |
Russian | дрозд-белобровик. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | crveni drozd. (various references) | |
Spanish | malvís. (various references) | |
Swedish | rödvingetrast. (various references) | |
Turkish | kızıl ardıçkuşu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дрізд білобровий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "redwing": redwings. (additional references) | |
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"Redwing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Derwig, erwing, Hedwig, Redfin, reding, Redring, Rewang, Rotwang. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wringed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: dewing, dinger, engird, girned, reding, rewind, ringed, winder, winged, winger. | |
-2 letters: deign, diner, dinge, dirge, dwine, gride, grind, reign, renig, rewin, ridge, weird, widen, wider, wined, wired, wried, wring. | |
-3 letters: deni, dine, ding, dire, dreg, drew, gied, gien, gird, girn, grew, grid, grin, ired, nerd, nide, rein, rend, ride, rind, ring, weir, wend. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-r-w" | |
+1 letter: dowering, redwings. | |
+2 letters: deworming, powdering, redrawing, rewarding, rewedding, rewelding, rewinding, rewording, underwing, wandering, wildering, wondering. | |
+3 letters: becrowding, bedwarfing, chowdering, decrowning, dewatering, reendowing, rewidening, scowdering, stewarding, underwings, wanderings, wingspread. | |
+4 letters: becowarding, bewildering, deflowering, handwringer, overdrawing, overwinding, rewardingly, underweight, unrewarding, wingspreads, wiredrawing. | |
+5 letters: bowdlerising, bowdlerizing, breadwinning, handwringers, overcrowding, underweights, underwriting. | |
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