cedar waxwing

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   widely distributed over temperate North America

   SynonymscedarbirdBombycilla cedrorun

   Broaderwaxwing

Questions about cedar waxwing

What does cedar waxwing mean?

cedar waxwing means "widely distributed over temperate North America".

What is another word for cedar waxwing?

Close synonyms include cedarbird, Bombycilla cedrorun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cedar waxwing a common word?

cedar waxwing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.