true warbler

/tru ˌwɔrb(ə)lər/

Other forms: true warblers

Definitions of true warbler

1. noun

   small active brownish or greyish Old World birds
   synonyms: Old World warbler

   types:

   Silvia atricapilla, blackcap

   small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown

   Phylloscopus sibilatrix, wood warbler

   European woodland warbler with dull yellow plumage

   Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, reedbird, sedge bird, sedge warbler, sedge wren

   small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa

   wren warbler

   small Asiatic and African bird; constructs nests like those of tailorbirds

   Orthotomus sutorius, tailorbird

   tropical Asian warbler that stitches leaves together to form and conceal its nest

   type of:

   warbler

   a small active songbird