reedbird Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun migratory American songbird
    Dolichonyx oryzivorus; bobolink; ricebird.
  2. noun small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
    Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; sedge bird; sedge warbler; sedge wren.

WordNet

Reed"bird` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) The bobolink. (b) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch&oe;nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.

Webster 1913