Word.ws English Dictionary

Kurrichane thrush

Kurrichane thrush noun: any member of the species Turdus libonyanus of thrushes, native to sub-Saharan Africa.

kurrichane thrush: any member of the species Turdus libonyanus of thrushes, native to sub-Saharan Africa
Image: Dick Daniels, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

Kurrichane thrush (plural Kurrichane thrushes)

  1. Any member of the species Turdus libonyanus of thrushes, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
    • Wild begonias and ferns along the road, stumps choked with purple and white convolvuli, a kurrichane thrush massaging the shadows with long liquid glides and quick curt mordents.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 336

Forms of Kurrichane thrush

pluralKurrichane thrushes

Origin of Kurrichane thrush

From a corrupted form of Kaditshwene (“a town in the North West province of South Africa”).

Questions about Kurrichane thrush

What does Kurrichane thrush mean?
Kurrichane thrush means any member of the species Turdus libonyanus of thrushes, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
What part of speech is Kurrichane thrush?
Kurrichane thrush is a noun.
What is the plural of Kurrichane thrush?
The plural of Kurrichane thrush is Kurrichane thrushes.

Words near Kurrichane thrush in the dictionary

  1. kurrajongs
  2. Kurrama
  3. kurrat
  4. kurre
  5. Kurri Kurri
  6. Kurrichane thrush
  7. Kurrichane thrushes
  8. Kurrupuwu
  9. kursaal
  10. kursaals
  11. kursi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kurrichane thrush (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Kurrichane thrush.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kurrichane_thrush. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.