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chickadee
chickadee , small North American bird of the titmouse family. The black-capped chickadee ( Parus atricapillus ), lively and gregarious, is a permanent resident over most of its range in the East. Both sexes have black caps, gray backs and wings, and fluffy white to buff underparts. They often swing upside down from branch tips, searching for the insects that form more than half their diet. Their call note gives the bird its name. Other species are the Carolina, the boreal, or brown-capped (of the Northeast), and the western chestnut-backed chickadees. Chickadees are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Paridae. |
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"chickadee." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "chickadee." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-chickade.html "chickadee." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-chickade.html |
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chickadee
chick·a·dee / ˈchikədē/ • n. a North American titmouse, in particular: the black-capped chickadee (Parus atricapillus), with distinctive black cap and throat, and the similar but smaller Carolina chickadee (P. carolinensis). |
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"chickadee." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "chickadee." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-chickadee.html "chickadee." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-chickadee.html |
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chickadee
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•secondi, spondee, tondi
•anybody • everybody • busybody
•dogsbody • homebody
•bawdy, gaudy, Geordie, Lordy
•baldy, Garibaldi, Grimaldi
•Maundy
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•Jodie, roadie, toady, tody
•Goldie, mouldy (US moldy), oldie
•broody, foodie, Judy, moody, Rudi, Trudy, Yehudi
•goody, hoodie, woody
•Burundi, Kirundi, Mappa Mundi
•Rushdie
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•barramundi, bassi profundi, Lundy, undy
•fuddy-duddy • understudy
•Lombardy • nobody • somebody
•organdie (US organdy) • burgundy
•Arcady
•chickadee, Picardy
•malady • melody • Lollardy
•psalmody • Normandy • threnody
•hymnody • jeopardy • chiropody
•parody • rhapsody • prosody
•bastardy • custody
•birdie, curdy, hurdy-gurdy, nerdy, sturdy, vinho verde, wordy
•olde worlde
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"chickadee." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "chickadee." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-chickadee.html "chickadee." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-chickadee.html |
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