noun
definition
Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings.
Examples of waxwings in a Sentence
Waxwings in the apple tree We had some glamorous and exciting bird visitors this week, as the weather turned cold.
Between 1803 and 1806 Le Vaillant also published in just the same style two volumes with the title of Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de Paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus, an assemblage of forms, which, miscellaneous as it is,.was surpassed in incongruity by a fourth work on the same scale, the Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guepiers, des couroucous et des touracos, for herein are found jays, waxwings, the cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola), and what not besides.
Frank Thompson had seen 14 waxwings near Sainsbury's and a similar number on West Park Avenue, Newby in December.
Frank Thompson had seen 14 waxwings near Sainsbury 's and a similar number on West Park Avenue, Newby in December.