yellowbird

Other forms: yellowbirds

Definitions of yellowbird
  1. noun
    yellow-throated American wood warbler
    synonyms: Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler
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    type of:
    New World warbler, wood warbler
    small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song
  2. noun
    American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer
    synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, goldfinch
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    type of:
    finch
    any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
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