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YELLOWBIRD

• YELLOWBIRD (noun)
The noun YELLOWBIRD has 2 senses:

1. yellow-throated American wood warbler
2. American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer

Familiarity information: YELLOWBIRD used as a noun is rare.

• YELLOWBIRD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Yellow-throated American wood warbler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dendroica petechia; golden warbler; yellow warbler; yellowbird

Hypernyms ("yellowbird" is a kind of...):

New World warbler; wood warbler (small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song)

Holonyms ("yellowbird" is a member of...):

Dendroica; genus Dendroica (a genus of Parulidae)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

goldfinch; New world goldfinch; Spinus tristis; yellowbird

Hypernyms ("yellowbird" is a kind of...):

finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)

Holonyms ("yellowbird" is a member of...):

genus Spinus; Spinus (in some classifications considered a subgenus of Carduelis: siskins and New World goldfinches)

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Useful links:
Definition of wood warbler
Definition of Dendroica
Definition of genus Dendroica
Pronunciation of finch
Definition of genus Spinus

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