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Redbreast
Redbreast meaning
Any of several unrelated birds that have a red breast | A European robin, Erithacus rubecula. | Any of several unrelated birds that have a red breast
Synonyms of Redbreast
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Example sentences (2)
The Australian "robin redbreast", more correctly the scarlet robin (Petroica multicolor), is more closely related to the crows and jays than it is to the European robin.
The distinctive orange breast of both sexes contributed to the European robin's original name of redbreast ( orange as the name of a colour was unknown in English until the sixteenth century, by which time the fruit of that name had been introduced).