Vireo Definition

vîrē-ō
vireos
noun
Any of a family (Vireonidae) of small, insect-eating, American passerine birds, with olive-green or gray plumage.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Vireonidae "” the vireos.

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Other Word Forms of Vireo

Noun

Singular:
vireo
Plural:
vireoes, vireos

Origin of Vireo

  • Latin vireō a kind of bird from virēre to be green

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin vireo

    From Wiktionary

Vireo Sentence Examples

  • The hermit thrush, veery, song sparrow, red-eyed vireo, bunting, warbler and wren are among the song birds of the forests.

  • It has few distinctive species, but within its borders the southern mole and cotton-tail rabbit of the South meet the northern star-nosed and Brewers moles and the varying hare of the North, and the southern bobwhite, Baltimore oriole, bluebird, catbird, chewink, thrasher and wood thrush are neighbors of the bobolink, solitary vireo and the hermit and Wilson s thrushes.

  • Walking back toward the bridge we saw black phoebe and searched in vain for a black-capped vireo.

  • We were given plenty of help by the staff here and were soon watching a singing male black-capped vireo at close range.

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