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- n candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults
- n a woman who sings popular songs
- n songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
- Finally it became Patsy Cline's post-mortem anthem; the Virginia thrush's rendition hit #18 on the country chart in 1980, 17 years after her death.
- He identifies birds by their song even before he spots them and is constantly chirping himself: "There's a wood thrush hopping across that rock .
- When Parents' unsuspecting eaglewith a thrush stowed away on its backlifts off majestically at the upward wave of the storyteller's hand, the audience lifts off too, out .