Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small warblers of the genus Parula, especially P. americana of eastern North America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [lowercase] The parula warbler, Compsothlypis americana. See
Parula . - noun A genus of diminutive American creeping warblers of highly variegated coloration, belonging to the family Sylvicolidæ or Mniotiltidæ; the blue yellow-backed warblers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The type genus of the
Parulidae: wood warblers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Parulidae: wood warblers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Not as aesthetically pleasing an addition as a painted bunting or a northern parula, but you take them as they come.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Not as aesthetically pleasing an addition as a painted bunting or a northern parula, but you take them as they come.
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For example, mature northern hardwood stands in New England commonly contain softwoods – usually red spruce, eastern hemlock, or white pine – and as a result they also contain bird species associated with coniferous forests, such as red-breasted nuthatches (Sitta canadensis), golden-crowned kinglets (Regulus satrapa), and northern parula warblers (Parula americana).
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Tropical parula ( '' Parula pitiayumi ''), Revillagigedo Isles, Mexico.
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When we hear of the parula warbler or of the Cape May warbler we get no idea of the appearance of the bird, but when we know that the black-throated green warblers begin to appear in April, the first good view of one of this species will proclaim him as such.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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Some - like the hooded warbler and Northern parula - also will breed in Texas; I recently saw a dozen Northern parulas setting up breeding territories in Sam Houston National Forest.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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From the coasts of Cameron and Vermilion parishes, the brilliantly plumaged travelers find their way into the hardwood bottomlands of Lafayette, where with a pair of binoculars you can catch beauties like parula warblers and painted buntings.
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He delights in the song of the parula, "chichichichiChiCHICHI!"
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As I step out the door, headed for a morning of ricefield birding with friends from Baton Rouge, the unmistakable spring breeding song of a northern parula warbler erupts from atop the big Mexican cypress tree near the garage.
theadvertiser.com - 2009
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Other early arrivals include a parula warbler on March 30 in Oak Bluffs and an indigo bunting on April 2 on Chappaquiddick.
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