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Definition of Thrushes
1. thrush [n] - See also: thrush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrushes
Literary usage of Thrushes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by Frank Marion Anderson, California Academy of Sciences (1890)
"THE SMALL thrushes OF CALIFORNIA. BY L. BELDING. There has been much confusion
concerning the small thrushes that occur in California, arising mainly, ..."
2. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1901)
"... Monograph of the thrushes ' (edited by Dr. RB Sharpe) is now before us.
It continues the series of Blackbirds (Merula:) of the author's arrangement, ..."
3. Western Birds by Harriet Williams Myers (1922)
"The Robin and Bluebird are the brightest plumaged, as well as the most sociable,
being dwellers of the dooryard and orchard; while the thrushes are ..."
4. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"The three hundred species included in this large family are placed by systematists
in several subfamilies. About one hundred and fifty are true thrushes ..."
5. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"E. thrushes, BLUEBIRDS, ETC. The three hundred species ... About one hundred and
fifty are true thrushes belonging in the subfamily ..."