Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of corviform oscine passerine birds, typified by the genus Oriolus; the Old World orioles or golden thrushes: so called from the characteristic yellow color of the plumage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family of Old World orioles.
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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuperfamily Corvoidea — thefigbirds andorioles .
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- noun Old World orioles
Etymologies
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Oriolus + -idae
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