malurid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any bird of the family Maluridae, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea.
Example Sentences
- "Only a few of the 26 malurids have been studied sufficiently closely to reveal their social organization."
- "A number of typical riparian, reed-dwelling, woodland and tall open forest species that forage in the shrub and ground layers were possibly reduced in abundance and absent (e.g. muscicapids, cuculids, malurids, acanthizids, sylviids)."
- "Fairywrens and Grasswrens, an account of the malurids by well-known ornithologists Ian Rowley and Eleanor Russell, is more than a field guide, but illustrated in guide style, three species to a plate, by Marsack."
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
malurid wren
Australasian wren