noun
a kind of New World oriole
• Syn: ↑Icterus galbula
• Hypernyms: ↑New World oriole, ↑American oriole, ↑oriole
• Hyponyms:
↑Baltimore oriole, ↑Baltimore bird, ↑hangbird, ↑firebird, ↑Icterus galbula galbula, ↑Bullock's oriole, ↑Icterus galbula bullockii
• Member Holonyms: ↑Icterus, ↑genus Icterus
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noun : an American oriole (Icterus galbula) that is characterized by the black and orange plumage of the male and that includes the Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula galbula) of the eastern United States and Bullock's oriole (Icterus galbula bullockii) of the western United States when they are considered subspecies rather than separate species
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an oriole, Icterus galbula, of North America, with highly distinctive eastern and western subspecies that interbreed in the Great Plains region. Cf. Baltimore oriole, Bullock's oriole.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.