WRENTIT

Etymology

Noun

wrentit (plural wrentits)

A small passerine bird, Chamaea fasciata, found in scrub along the west coast of North America.

Anagrams

• twinter, written

Source: Wiktionary



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29 June 2024

INITIALISM

(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”


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