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noun

Oriole n. (Zool.)

(a)

Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or Oriolus oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.

(b)

In America, any one of several species of the genus Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and Orchard oriole, under Orchard.

Crested oriole. (Zool.) See Cassican.

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Etymology of 'Oriole'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Oriole" Quotes from Famous Books

... water; anon we glide past a forest of majestic old trees, that seem to press their topmost buds against the fleecy clouds floating in the blue sky; and through these forests we catch glimpses of the oriole, dashing through the boughs like a flake of ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 - Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 • Various

... Spring and Summer went to the making of the tapestry: the first robin's cheery call, the shimmer of blue wings speeding across it, the golden glow from an oriole's breast, and the silver rain of melody dripping from the throat of a meadow-lark as he swept through ...

— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed

Words linked to "Oriole" : bobolink, American oriole, Bullock's oriole, Baltimore oriole, Old World oriole, cazique, Icterus spurius, ricebird, New World oriole, New World blackbird, reedbird, lark, Icteridae, orchard oriole, Oriolus oriolus, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, fig-bird, Icterus galbula, golden oriole, family Oriolidae, northern oriole, Oriolidae, family Icteridae