Definitions for ovenbird

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ovenbird ov·en·bird

Spelling: [uhv-uh n-burd]

IPA: /ˈʌv ənˌbɜrd/

Ovenbird is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 316 anagrams from letters in ovenbird (bdeinorv).

Definitions for ovenbird

noun

1. an American warbler, Seiurus aurocapillus, that builds an oven-shaped nest of leaves, twigs, etc., on the forest floor.
2. any of several South American passerine birds of the genus Furnarius of the family Furnariidae, certain species of which build an oven-shaped nest.

Origin of ovenbird

First recorded in 1815-25; oven + bird

Examples for ovenbird

He had found the ovenbird's nest himself, while on his way home in the early morning.

Not even the ovenbird contrives that a peep at her eggs shall be so difficult for us.

The vireos, the cardinal and the tanager add to the brilliancy and the ovenbird and veery to the melody.

Each burrow had one fine, large room, bigger than an ovenbird's nest, with a soft bed of leaves and fur.

It is only by a happy accident that this nest of the ovenbird is discovered.

Mrs. ovenbird felt her nest roof crush down upon her for a minute as two people rolled and growled outside.

Another haunter of the dusky depths of the woods is the ovenbird.

Or would it be a ball of leaves and grasses on the ground, with a tiny doorway in one side, like that of the ovenbird?