northern oriole

northern oriole
noun
a kind of New World oriole
Syn: ↑Icterus galbula
Hypernyms: ↑New World oriole, ↑American oriole, ↑oriole
Hyponyms:
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.

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