jenny wren
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jenny wren
noun jenny wrens
- The wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, especially as considered (in nursery-rhymes, etc.) as the wife or sweetheart of robin redbreast. There would have been no one to superintend him, except a squirrel perhaps or a jenny wren, at which he might have winked.
- a female blue wren, or a male blue wren in non-breeding plumage. But Rogers had married beneath him, and the sight of the pursy upstart [...] sitting there, in satin and feathers, lording it over his own little Jenny Wren, was more than Mahony could tolerate.
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Synonym of herb Robert.
Similar: herb Robert
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