Phrase Hound found 44 phrases and 32 compound words that contain wren. The most common are listed below. Open wren in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 44
- Eurasian wrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Wren DayA custom on December 26 where people, especially boys, hunt a wren (originally a live bird, and now a fake one) and parade it upon a decorated pole for prosperity in the coming year.
- cactus wrena wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus), native to the southwestern United States southwards to central Mexico.
- house wrenTroglodytes aedon, a very small songbird of the wren family.
- Carolina wrenA common species of wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) found throughout the eastern United States and nearby areas. It is the state bird of South Carolina.
- black-bellied wrenPheugopedius fasciatoventris, a species of wren.
- jenny wrenThe wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, especially as considered (in nursery-rhymes, etc.) as the wife or sweetheart of robin redbreast.
- New Zealand wrenA passerine bird of the family Acanthisittidae, including two living and several extinct species in four or five genera.
- blue wrenAny of various species of fairywren (tribe Malurini in the family Maluridae), the male of which acquires blue adult or breeding plumage.
- willow wrenThe willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus).
- winter wrenA bird of the species Troglodytes hiemalis, of the coniferous forests of the cooler parts of North America, from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast.
- Stephens Island wrenSynonym of Lyall's wren (“Traversia lyalli”).
- canyon wrenCatherpes mexicanus, a small North American songbird of the wren family.
- emu-wrenAny of several Australian passerine birds in the genus Stipiturus with long barbless tail feathers like those of the emu.
- fairy-wrenAny of certain small, insectivorous Australian birds, incorporating fourteen members of the family Maluridae.
- marsh wrenA North American wren, Cistothorus palustris.
- rock wrenA wren native to South America and western North America (Salpinctes obsoletus),
- wren-warblerAny of various birds in various genera, especially Prinia.
- nightingale-wrenEither of two wrens, Microcerculus philomela and Microcerculus marginatus of Central America and northern South America, correspondingly.
- Zapata wrenFerminia cerverai, a medium-sized greyish-brown bird of Cuba.
- sedge wrenA species of bird, Cistothorus stellaris
- golden-crested wrenThe goldcrest, Regulus regulus
- wren-babblerAny of various birds in seven genera in four families.
- Daito wrenTroglodytes troglodytes orii, a controversial subspecies of the Eurasian wren, known only by its type specimen from the Daito Archipelago of Japan.
- sooty-headed wrenPheugopedius spadix, a species of wren with a black head found only in Colombia and small parts of Panama.
Compound words 32
- antwrenAny member of a genus of small antbirds, Myrmotherula.
- wrentitA small passerine bird, Chamaea fasciata, found in scrub along the west coast of North America.
- fairywrenAny of the small passerine birds of the genera Malurus, Chenorhamphus, Clytomyias, and Sipodotus.
- WrenaissanceA style of Baroque revival architecture popular in England from the turn of the 20th century.
- bamboowrenAny in the genus Psilorhamphus, of which the spotted bamboowren (Psilorhamphus guttatus) is the only species.
- fieldwrenAny of the birds in the genus Calamanthus, found in Australia.
- gnatwrenAny of several birds of various genera in the family Polioptilidae which are browner and more thickset, and have proportionally shorter tails and longer bills, than their relatives the soft blue-grey gnatcatchers.
- grasswrenAny of the birds in the malurid genus Amytornis.
- heathwrenAny of the birds in genus Hylacola (sometimes included in Calamanthus), native to Australia.
- rockwrenA small wren endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, Xenicus gilviventris.