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Meanings of thrushes in English

Russian
дроздовые
Portuguese
turdinae
Spanish
turdidos
Catalan
túrdids
Wikidata

Family of birds.

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дроздовые
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Examples for "thrush"
Examples for "thrush"
1
This was the only species of thrush I saw in the Adirondacks.
Wake-Robin
2
There was a thrush singing in the dusk of the sycamore leaves.
Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
3
Listen, for example, to a song thrush exploring and developing musical themes.
The Irish Times
4
Then an idea popped into the little brown head of the thrush.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children
5
Thereafter and at last the thrush went to sleep in a spruce-fir.
The Way of the Wild
1
Family Turdidae: THRUSHES, BLUEBIRDS, ETC.
Bird Neighbors / An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred a...
Usage of thrushes in English
1
Several species of ant-thrushes always accompany the army ants in the forest.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
2
But one season previously the copse seemed to belong to the missel-thrushes.
Nature Near London
3
In those days men looked on women as thrushes look on worms.
Fraternity
4
I frequently sing like my cousins, the catbirds and robins and thrushes.
Bird Day; How to prepare for it
5
But mistle thrushes are not actually very efficient at distributing mistletoe seeds.
BBC
6
The thrushes raised their heads, peeping sideways to listen, on their guard.
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
7
The same question had arisen in South Dublin over both thrushes and blackbirds.
The Irish Times
8
There are jays and thrushes as in España, and white storks and cranes.
History of the Philippine Islands
9
Today, tui and perhaps European thrushes and blackbirds play that role.
Radio NZ
10
Look at those thrushes-thebirds are sweet here in the mornings.
Five Tales
11
So that now the thrushes have no idea of there being no Kapchack.
Wood Magic: A Fable
12
They are redwings and thrushes; every withy-bed is full of them.
The Amateur Poacher
13
Daphnes really belong to early spring, but so do song thrushes and primroses.
The Guardian
14
The ravine below the house was musical with thrushes and meadow-larks.
Purple Springs
15
Birds puff their feathers against the cold: outsize thrushes, portly blackbirds, rotund robins.
The Irish Times
16
Neither did thrushes set out with the intent of domesticating strawberries.
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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United Kingdom
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