noun
small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub
• Syn: ↑scrubbird, ↑scrub bird
• Hypernyms: ↑passerine, ↑passeriform bird
• Member Holonyms: ↑Atrichornis, ↑genus Atrichornis
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/skrub"berrd'/, n.
either of two Australian passerine birds of the genus Atrichornis, related to the lyrebirds, having a loud voice and reduced powers of flight: A. clamosus is endangered.
[1865-70; SCRUB2 + BIRD]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.