thrush

«thrush» in Mova's school dictionary: A songbird with a brown back and a spotted chest, such as… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a thrush, thrushes; thrush — the illness, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A songbird with a brown back and a spotted chest, such as the song thrush; the American robin is also a thrush. tree →

2) (medicine) An infection caused by a yeast (a fungus), which makes white patches in the mouth or itching. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons the song thrush is known for repeating its song phrases and smashing snail shells on stones. In health topics, thrush is a common, treatable infection, often in babies' mouths. Phrases: song thrush, mistle thrush.

examples

• A song thrush was singing in the garden at dawn. tree →
• The thrush cracked a snail shell on a stone. tree →
• Thrushes have speckled chests. tree →
• The American robin is actually a kind of thrush. tree →
• The baby had thrush, so the doctor gave some medicine. tree →
• We saw a mistle thrush eating berries. tree →
• Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away! tree →

note

The bird is countable (thrushes); the illness is uncountable. Two very different meanings with one spelling.

In the corpora

• Slugs feed at night when it is damp, and hedgehogs, thrushes, frogs and beetles eat them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thrush» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.