noun
wrens
• Syn: ↑family Troglodytidae
• Hypernyms: ↑bird family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Passeriformes, ↑order Passeriformes
• Member Meronyms:
↑wren, ↑jenny wren, ↑Troglodytes, ↑genus Troglodytes, ↑Cistothorus, ↑genus Cistothorus, ↑Salpinctes, ↑genus Salpinctes, ↑Thryothorus, ↑genus Thryothorus, ↑Campylorhynchus, ↑genus Campylorhynchus, ↑Heleodytes, ↑genus Heleodytes
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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈdid.əˌdē\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: a family of passerine birds consisting of the wrens, formerly including also the thrashers, mockingbirds, and related forms and sometimes being made a subfamily of Timaliidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.