adjective
rare OrnithologyBelonging to a group of passerine families comprising the thrushes (family Turdidae) and related birds, sometimes regarded as constituting a superfamily Turdoidea.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Elliott Coues (1842–1889), naturalist and historian. From classical Latin turdus thrush + -oid.
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