Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American oriole of the family Icteridæ and subfamily Icterinæ: so called from its pensile purse-like nest.
- noun Some other bird which builds a hanging nest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The Baltimore oriole (
Icterus galbula ); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. SeeBaltimore oriole .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The Baltimore oriole (
Icterus galbula ), whosenest is suspended from the limb of a tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun eastern subspecies of northern oriole
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Examples
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There are notes of joy from the hangbird and wren,
The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck
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The old pond seems glad to have us go, and the fire-hangbird's nest in the willer tree waves us good-bye.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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The old pond seems glad to have us go, and the fire-hangbird's nest in the willer-tree waves us good-by.
A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872
reesetee commented on the word hangbird
Obsolete nickname for the Northern Oriole, so called because so called because its nest is a woven pendant bag of plant fibers, bark, and string suspended from the tip of a branch.
December 7, 2007
bilby commented on the word hangbird
I know which wordgame these birds like to play ;-)
December 8, 2007