- waxwing - brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips
--1 is a kind of oscine, oscine bird
--1 is a member of Bombycilla, genus bombycilla
--1 has particulars:cedar waxwing, cedarbird, Bombycilla cedrorun; Bohemian waxwing, Bombycilla garrulus