yellow warbler

yellow warbler
noun
yellow-throated American wood warbler
• Hypernyms: ↑New World warbler, ↑wood warbler
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dendroica, ↑genus Dendroica

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noun
1.
a. : a small No. American warbler (Dendroica petechia) very common throughout the United States and frequently breeding in shade trees in cities and villages and having the male bright yellow with brown streaks on the underparts
b. : any of various related warblers of Central America and the West Indies
2. dialect England : willow warbler

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a small American warbler, Dendroica petechia, the male of which has yellow plumage streaked with brown on the underparts. Also called golden warbler.
[1775-85, Amer.]

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yellow warbler,
a small American warbler; golden warbler; yellowbird. The male has yellow plumage, streaked with brown.

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