jenny wren

1. 1.

   any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects

   Synonymswren

   Broaderpasserine

   Narrowerwinter wrenhouse wrenmarsh wrenrock wrenCarolina wrencactus wren

   Part ofTroglodytidae

Questions about jenny wren

What does jenny wren mean?

jenny wren means "any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects".

What is another word for jenny wren?

Close synonyms include wren. 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 jenny wren a common word?

jenny wren 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.