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AMERICAN ORIOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American oriole mean? 

AMERICAN ORIOLE (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN ORIOLE has 1 sense:

1. American songbird; male is black and orange or yellowplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN ORIOLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN ORIOLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American oriole; New World oriole; oriole

Hypernyms ("American oriole" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American oriole"):

Icterus galbula; northern oriole (a kind of New World oriole)

Icterus spurius; orchard oriole (the male is chestnut-and-black)

lark; meadowlark (North American songbirds having a yellow breast)

cacique; cazique (black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics)

bobolink; Dolichonyx oryzivorus; reedbird; ricebird (migratory American songbird)

blackbird; New World blackbird (any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black)

Holonyms ("American oriole" is a member of...):

family Icteridae; Icteridae (American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks)


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