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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#m1)

2) (medicine) An infection caused by a yeast (a fungus), which makes white patches in the mouth or itching. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#x1)
- The thrush cracked a snail shell on a stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#x2)
- Thrushes have speckled chests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#x3)
- The American robin is actually a kind of thrush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#x4)
- The baby had thrush, so the doctor gave some medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#x5)
- We saw a mistle thrush eating berries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#x6)
- Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thrush» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thrush/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.