OVENBIRD


Meaning of OVENBIRD in English

noun Etymology: from the shape of its nest Date: circa 1825 any of various chiefly South American small brown passerine birds (family Furnariidae, especially genus Furnarius ), an American warbler ( Seiurus aurocapillus ) that builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground

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