jenny wren

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.