vireo
any of several small, insectivorous American birds of the family Vireonidae, having the plumage usually olive-green or gray above and white or yellow below.
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How to use vireo in a sentence
"Pertest of songsters," the white-eyed vireo makes whatever neighborhood it enters lively at once.
Bird Neighbors | Neltje BlanchanIndeed, this warbling vireo seems to be the connecting link between them.
Bird Neighbors | Neltje BlanchanThe vireo flashed by a dark body that had a light shining at its bows,—some ship swinging at anchor.
Friendship and Folly | Maria Louise PoolLeander eyed the speaker for some seconds in silence before he said, "You wa'n't drowned when the vireo went to pieces?"
Friendship and Folly | Maria Louise PoolThings had been very odd indeed 238 the time the vireo did not come back; perhaps he really would find out now.
Friendship and Folly | Maria Louise Pool
British Dictionary definitions for vireo
/ (ˈvɪrɪəʊ) /
any insectivorous American songbird of the family Vireonidae, esp those of the genus Vireo, having an olive-grey back with pale underparts
Origin of vireo
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