noun
1. small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
• Syn: ↑sedge warbler, ↑sedge bird, ↑sedge wren, ↑Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
• Hypernyms: ↑Old World warbler, ↑true warbler
2. migratory American songbird
• Syn: ↑bobolink, ↑ricebird, ↑Dolichonyx oryzivorus
• Hypernyms: ↑New World oriole, ↑American oriole, ↑oriole
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dolichonyx, ↑genus Dolichonyx
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun1. : bobolink — used especially of this bird when flocking in reedy marshes in fall and winter
2. : any of several small Asiatic timaliine birds of the genera Schoenicola and Laticilla
3. : sedge warbler
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/reed"berrd'/, n. Southern U.S.
bobolink.
[1640-50; REED + BIRD]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.