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Erithacus

noun

Old World thrushes

• Syn: ↑genus Erithacus

• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Turdidae, ↑family Turdidae

• Member Meronyms:

↑robin, ↑redbreast, ↑robin redbreast, ↑Old World robin, ↑Erithacus rubecola, ↑bluethroat, ↑Erithacus svecicus

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\\ə̇ˈrithə̇kəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek erithakos, a bird, probably the robin

: a genus of Old World thrushes including the European robin and various related Asiatic birds

Useful english dictionary. 2012.