songbird

/ˈsɒŋˌbɜːd/

Etymology

From song + bird.

songbird means A bird having a melodious song or call. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

songbird is pronounced /ˈsɒŋˌbɜːd/.

Why “songbird” is a great word

SONGBIRD — [Noun] A passerine bird of the suborder Passeri, distinguished by its capacity for complex, learned, and often melodious vocalization. From song (a melodious vocalization) + bird (a feathered vertebrate). Unlike “passerine” (a broader taxonomic category that includes birds with simpler, innate calls) or “warbler” (a specific, often drab family within the chorus), “songbird” names not a lineage but a gift—the capacity for invented music. It is the robin's liquid descant at dawn, the mockingbird's unspooling, inventive riff at midnight, and the single, clear note of a thrush filtering through deep woods. A brief, feathered proof that against the silence of the universe, something here has learned to sing.

noun

A bird having a melodious song or call.“Sweet little lady sings like a songbird / And she sings the opera like you ain't never heard”
Any bird in the passerine suborder Passeri, which are distinguished by a more sophisticated vocal apparatus.
A person, especially a woman, with a melodious voice.