redbreast Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small Old World songbird with a reddish breast
    robin redbreast; Erithacus rubecola; Old World robin; robin.

WordNet

Red"breast` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) The European robin. (b) The American robin. See Robin. (c) The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
  2. (Zoöl.) The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish.

Webster 1913