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NORTHERN ORIOLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A kind of New World oriole
Synonyms:
Icterus galbula; northern oriole
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("northern oriole" is a kind of...):
American oriole; New World oriole; oriole (American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "northern oriole"):
Baltimore bird; Baltimore oriole; firebird; hangbird; Icterus galbula galbula (eastern subspecies of northern oriole)
Bullock's oriole; Icterus galbula bullockii (western subspecies of northern oriole)
Holonyms ("northern oriole" is a member of...):
genus Icterus; Icterus (type genus of the Icteridae)
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