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Definition of Reedling

1. n. The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.

Definition of Reedling

1. Noun. A bird, the bearded tit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reedling

1. a marsh bird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Reedling

1. The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus). Synonym: reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird. It is orange brown, marked with black, white, and yellow on the wings. The male has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face. (19 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reedling

Literary usage of Reedling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Song Birds: Being Popular Descriptions and Anecdotes of the by Neville Wood (1836)
"Sedge Warbler, SELBY'S Br. Orn.—Sedge reedling, Analyst, No. 13. IN general appearance, the Sedge reedling has a great similarity to the ..."

2. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1837)
"Fantail reedling, Salicaria cisticola, ... which it places its nest; these it does not draw together" in the manner of the Marsh reedling, " but by piercing ..."

3. Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies (1883)
"Here a brook-sparrow or sedge-reedling takes up his quarters in the ... The latter sings in one bush and the sedge-reedling in another close together. ..."

4. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1836)
"The supposed scarcity of the Siskin Goldwing and Marsh reedling is doubtless owing to the little attention paid to ornithology, by those living in the ..."

5. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1837)
"Fantail reedling, Salicaria ... among which it places its nest; these it does not draw together" in the manner of the Marsh reedling, " but by piercing each ..."

6. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1837)
"The bearded reedling ... progresses by hopping, like the tits; whereas the bearded reedling advances by alternate motion of the feet. ..."

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