Phrase Hound found 25 phrases and 12 compound words that contain wrens. The most common are listed below. Open wrens in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 25
- cactus wrensplural of cactus wren: a wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus), native to the southwestern United States southwards to central Mexico.
- house wrensplural of house wren: Troglodytes aedon, a very small songbird of the wren family.
- New Zealand wrensplural of New Zealand wren: A passerine bird of the family Acanthisittidae, including two living and several extinct species in four or five genera.
- blue wrensplural of blue wren: Any of various species of fairywren (tribe Malurini in the family Maluridae), the male of which acquires blue adult or breeding plumage.
- canyon wrensplural of canyon wren: Catherpes mexicanus, a small North American songbird of the wren family.
- Carolina wrensplural of Carolina wren: A common species of wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) found throughout the eastern United States and nearby areas. It is the state bird of South Carolina.
- emu-wrensplural of emu-wren: Any of several Australian passerine birds in the genus Stipiturus with long barbless tail feathers like those of the emu.
- Eurasian wrensplural of Eurasian wren: Troglodytes troglodytes
- fairy-wrensplural of fairy-wren: Any of certain small, insectivorous Australian birds, incorporating fourteen members of the family Maluridae.
- jenny wrensplural of jenny wren: The wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, especially as considered (in nursery-rhymes, etc.) as the wife or sweetheart of robin redbreast.
- marsh wrensplural of marsh wren: A North American wren, Cistothorus palustris.
- reed wrensplural of reed wren: A warbler of the genus Acrocephalus.
- rock wrensplural of rock wren: A wren native to South America and western North America (Salpinctes obsoletus),
- scrub wrensplural of scrub wren: Any of various small, mainly insectivorous passerine birds of genus Sericornis in family Acanthizidae.
- willow wrensplural of willow wren: The willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus).
- winter wrensplural of winter wren: A bird of the species Troglodytes hiemalis, of the coniferous forests of the cooler parts of North America, from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast.
- Zapata wrensplural of Zapata wren: Ferminia cerverai, a medium-sized greyish-brown bird of Cuba.
- black-bellied wrensplural of black-bellied wren: Pheugopedius fasciatoventris, a species of wren.
- golden-crested wrensplural of golden-crested wren: The goldcrest, Regulus regulus
- Stephens Island wrensplural of Stephens Island wren: Synonym of Lyall's wren (“Traversia lyalli”).
- fasciated wrensplural of fasciated wren: Campylorhynchus fasciatus, a species of wren native to Ecuador and Peru.
- Lyall's wrensplural of Lyall's wren: Traversia lyalli, a small flightless passerine bird once found throughout New Zealand, now extinct.
- gold-crested wrensplural of gold-crested wren: A very small passerine bird, Regulus regulus, that breeds in Eurasia.
- short-billed marsh wrensplural of short-billed marsh wren: The sedge wren Cistothorus stellaris
- Lambert's wrensplural of Lambert's wren: A variegated fairywren (Malurus lamberti), of eastern Australia.
Compound words 12
- WrenshallA minor city and township in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.
- antwrensplural of antwren: Any member of a genus of small antbirds, Myrmotherula.
- bushwrensplural of bushwren: An extinct species of small wrenlike almost flightless passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Xenicus longipes.
- emuwrensplural of emuwren: Any of several Australian passerine birds in the genus Stipiturus with long barbless tail feathers like those of the emu.
- fairywrensplural of fairywren: Any of the small passerine birds of the genera Malurus, Chenorhamphus, Clytomyias, and Sipodotus.
- fernwrensplural of fernwren: A bird of the species Oreoscopus gutturalis, native to Queensland, Australia.
- fieldwrensplural of fieldwren: Any of the birds in the genus Calamanthus, found in Australia.
- gnatwrensplural of gnatwren: Any 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.
- grasswrensplural of grasswren: Any of the birds in the malurid genus Amytornis.
- heathwrensplural of heathwren: Any of the birds in genus Hylacola (sometimes included in Calamanthus), native to Australia.