1. any of various small brownish songbirds of the family Troglodytidae, having rounded wings, a slender bill, and a short, often erect tail.
2. any of various similar unrelated songbirds.

1. members of a mainly new world passerine bird family Troglodytidae.
2. small bird of similar appearance to a true wren.

1. any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidæ.
2. any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.

1. A very small migratory and insectivorous singing-bird of great britain and other european countries, with a slender bill and extremely short tail, and of dark reddish-brown coloration varied with black, inhabiting shrubbery, and belonging to the family Troglodytidæ; hence, any member of this family, and, with a qualifying term, one of various other small birds of different families, as certain warblers, kinglets, etc. see the phrases below.
2. the goldcrest or kinglet, regulus cristatus. see cut under goldcrest.
3. Uropsila leucogastra, of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas in mexico, originally described by J. Gould in 1836 as troglodytes leucogastra, a name subsequently misused to denote the white-bellied wren .
4. (see also cactus-wren, cañon-wren, marsh-wren, reed-wren, tule-wren, willow-wren, wood-wren.)

1. english architect who designed more than fifty london churches (1632-1723)
2. any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects