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Definition of Chickadee
1. Noun. Any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America.
Group relationships: Genus Parus, Parus
Specialized synonyms: Black-capped Chickadee, Blackcap, Parus Atricapillus, Carolina Chickadee, Parus Carolinensis
Definition of Chickadee
1. n. A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.
Definition of Chickadee
1. Noun. A small passerine bird (songbird) of the genus ''Parus'' or the family Paridae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chickadee
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chickadee
Literary usage of Chickadee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"HARRY C. OBER- HOLDER, Washington, DC Labrador Brown-cap chickadee ... darker
mouse-colored cap than that of the Acadian chickadee ..."
2. The Nursery by Fanny P Seaverns, John L. Shorey (Firm (1869)
"THE chickadee. THERE is a little bird, children, That lights upon a tree, And
perks his little head, and sings, " chickadee-dee, ..."
3. Birds of Village and Field: A Bird Book for Beginners by Florence Merriam Bailey (1898)
"He who knows the chickadee only by name is an enviable person, for he has still
before him the initial pleasures of one of the choicest of all bird ..."
4. Darwinism To-day: A Discussion of Present-day Scientific Criticism of the by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"I quote from this- paper the following: "The chestnut-backed chickadee (Parus
... "The range of the chestnut-backed chickadee is nearly two. thousand miles ..."
5. Poetry of the Seasons by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1898)
"... it not for me," Said a chickadee, " Not a single flower on earth would be ;
For under the ground they soundly sleep, And never venture an upward peep, ..."
6. Indian Legends & Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon (1910)
"chickadee chickadee, chickadee, chickadee-dee! That was the song that he sang to
me— Sang from his perch in the willow tree— chickadee, chickadee, ..."
7. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE chickadee Teacher's Story "He is the hero of the woods; ... Thus it is, that
in all the lands of snowy winters the chickadee is a loved comrade of the ..."
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