palm warbler

noun

1. a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.

Word History and Origins

Origin of palm warbler¹

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Example Sentences

When together the two forms may be readily distinguished by the brighter yellow of the yellow palm warbler.

From Project Gutenberg

It comes with the yellow palm warbler late in April, when many of the trees are nearly bare, and not long after the pine warbler.

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I had been hunting for the nest of a yellow palm warbler in a little gully in the depths of a northern forest.

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