noun. A North American songbird (Turdus migratorius) having a rust-red breast and gray and black upper plumage.

noun. A small songbird (Erithacus rubecula) of Eurasia and Africa having olive-brown upper plumage and a conspicuous orange breast and face.

noun. Any of various birds resembling a robin.

noun. A trimming on the front of a dress.

noun. A toxin obtained from the Robinia Pseudacacia, a locust-tree of North America.

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noun. A small sylviine bird of Europe, Erythacus rubecula, more fully called robin-redbreast, and also redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.

noun. The red-breasted or migratory thrush of North America, Turdus migratorius or Merula migratoria, one of the most abundant and familiar of North American birds: so called from the reddish-brown color of the under parts, which, however, is very different, both in hue and in extent, from that of the European redbreast.

noun. With a qualifying term, one of numerous warbler-like or thrush-like birds, more or less nearly related to or resembling either of the foregoing: as, the blue-throated robin. (See Cyanecula, and cut under bluethroat.)

noun. The robin-snipe or red-breasted sandpiper, Tringa canutus: a clipped name among gunners. Also beach-robin. See knot, 1.

noun. The sea-robin or red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator.

noun. In ichthyology, a sea-robin or flying-robin; one of several kinds of Triglidæ.

noun. A local name of the pinfish.

noun. A name variously applied (commonly as part of a compound) to the herb-robert, to species of Lychnis, and to some other plants.

noun. Same as robbin.

noun. A small European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.

noun. An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush.

noun. Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera.

noun. Any one of several Asiatic birds. See Indian robin, below.

noun. the robin snipe, or knot. See Knot.

noun. See Bluethroat.

noun. the cedar bird.

noun. the Baltimore oriole.

noun. the chewink.

noun. any one of several species of Asiatic saxoline birds of the genera Thamnobia and Pratincola. They are mostly black, usually with some white on the wings.

noun. an Asiatic singing bird (Corsycus saularis), having the back, head, neck, and breast black glossed with blue, the wings black, and the belly white.

noun. See under Ragged.

noun. a small Asiatic singing bird (Accentor rubeculoides), somewhat resembling the European robin.

noun. The American bluebird.

noun. The red-breasted sandpiper, or knot.

noun. See under Plantain.

noun. The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake.

noun. a redstart (Ruticulla fuliginosa), native of India.

noun. A European robin; Erithacus rubecula.

noun. An American robin; Turdus migratorius.

noun. Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltridae), typically with a red breast.

noun. large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomen

noun. small Old World songbird with a reddish breast

"Hidden from sight, a robin is singing a soft October song in perfect accord with the mood of the day, melancholic with the passing of summer yet sweet with the fullness of a perfect autumn day."

golden robin  ground robin  magpie robin  new-zealand robin  oregon robin  

robin redbreast  round-robin  

thrush  

Robyn  bobbin  dobbin  robbin  

blackbird  bluebird  bobolink  cuckoo  finch  

redbreast  robin redbreast  

migratory thrush  robin redbreast  robinet  ruddock