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robin

29 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. robin (noun)
  2. robin's egg (noun)
  3. robin's-egg blue (noun)
  4. robin's plantain (noun)
  5. Poor Robin's plantain (noun)
  6. Warner Robins (geographical name)
  7. beach robin (noun)
  8. blind robin (noun)
  9. bush robin (noun)
  10. cock robin (noun)
  11. early wake-robin (noun)
  12. flying robin (noun)
  13. golden robin (noun)
  14. ground robin (noun)
  15. large-flowered wake-robin (noun)
  16. magpie robin (noun)
  17. marsh robin (noun)
  18. prairie wake-robin (noun)
  19. ragged robin (noun)
  20. red robin (noun)
  21. round-robin (noun)
  22. run-away-robin (noun)
  23. scrub robin (noun)
  24. sea robin (noun)
  25. swamp robin (noun)
  26. wake-robin (noun)
  27. water robin (noun)
  28. white robin (noun)
  29. wood robin (noun)

rob·in

noun \ˈrä-bən\

Definition of ROBIN

1
a : a small chiefly European thrush (Erithacus rubecula) resembling a warbler and having a brownish-olive back and orangish face and breast b : any of various Old World songbirds that are related to or resemble the European robin
2
: a large North American thrush (Turdus migratorius) with olivaceous to slate-gray upperparts, blackish head and tail, black and whitish streaked throat, and dull reddish breast and underparts
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Origin of ROBIN

akin to Dutch dialect robijntje linnet, Frisian robyntsje
First Known Use: 1549

Other Birds Terms

aerie, bunting, clutch, covey, hackle, ratite, rictus, ruff, skein, zygodactyl

Rhymes with ROBIN

bobbin, graben

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