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vireo

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"Olive-gray songbird"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈvi.ɹi.oʊ/Part of speech nounSorted eiorvStarts with VEnds with O1 clues
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Definitions

  1. any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color

Word origin

From translingual Vireo (genus name), from Latin vireō (“to be green”).

Used in a sentence

  • The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.
  • 2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94, This is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.
  • Family Vireonidae Vireos The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.

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