The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. A New World thrush (Hylocichla fuscescens) having a reddish-brown head, back, and tail and an indistinctly spotted breast. Also called Wilson's thrush.
n. An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Wilson's or the tawny thrush of North America, Turdus (Hylocichla) fuscescens, one of the five songthrushes common in the eastern parts of the United States.
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n. tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song
Word Usage
"We were walking slowly down what we called the veery road in the woods, far over the other side from the cuckoo's nest, when we heard a very low but strange baby cry in some thick bushes."