gnatwren

noun

gnatwren

noun

Etymology From gnat + wren.

1

Any of several birds of various genera in the family Polioptilidae which are browner and more thickset, and have proportionally shorter tails and longer bills, than their relatives the soft blue-grey gnatcatchers.

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