dunnock|dunnocks in English

noun

small European woodland bird that resembles the sparrow in size and coloring

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1. 12 A dunnock plays host to a young cuckoo.

2. Accentor (plural Accentors) Any bird of the Eurasian genus Prunella, such as the dunnock

3. Accentor (plural Accentors) Any bird of the Eurasian genus Prunella, such as the dunnock.

4. 6 The inconspicuous dunnock has the most variable mating system of any known bird.

5. 8 words related to Accentor: oscine, oscine bird, genus Prunella, Prunella, dunnock, hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow

6. Cuckoos that target dunnock nests lay white, brown-speckled eggs, in contrast to the dunnock's own blue eggs

7. The Accentors are small, brown, unobtrusive sparrow-like birds, epitomised by the European Hedge Accentor, whose vernacular name, Dunnock, translates from Old English as, well, small brown bird.It is also something of an exception since all other species in this family are confined to mountainous areas, and usually only at altitudes of a 1000m or more; the dunnock is

8. The theory suggests that common redstarts have been parasitised by common Cuckoos for longer, and so have evolved to be better than the dunnocks at noticing the cuckoo eggs

9. ‘In dunnocks, females may use song to compete for males, and in the alpine Accentor, females attract males by song.’ Origin Early 19th century from late Latin, from ad- ‘to’ + cantor ‘singer’.

10. Accentor - small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus genus Prunella, Prunella - type genus of the Prunellidae dunnock, hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow - small brownish European songbird