Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A songbird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of eastern North America having black, white, and rust-colored plumage in the male.
- noun Any of several similar birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone, found in western North America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chewink, ground-robin, or marsh-robin of the United States, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, or any other species of the genus Pipilo: more fully called
towhee bunting
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The chewink.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several species of
birds of the generaPipilo andMelozone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous long-tailed American finches
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So let us call the towhee a finch, and say no more about it.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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Mystery bird: California towhee, Melozone crissalis
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Mystery bird: California towhee, Melozone crissalis
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Flocks of phoebe and towhee and dove pushing the cold ahead of them.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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The most common birds seen in the dry summer season are wrentit, common bushtit, and rufous-sided towhee.
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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Of the 20-odd bird species present in mature forest, the most common are the pine warbler, cardinal, summer tanager, Carolina wren, ruby-throated hummingbird, blue jay, hooded warbler, eastern towhee, and tufted titmouse.
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I wish I had seen an eastern towhee or a cedar waxwing.
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The juvenile rufous sided towhee and song,strike that, white throated, thanks Lisa, sparrow pick up the crumbs.
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Music and cats towhee smugsmug kristine uw cowtipper rishabht hartson pbase rockndog rickolis
Other Solstice Parade Pictures patternjuggler 2005
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Seen just today: junco, northern flicker, rufous sided towhee sp?
Winter is icumen in... intertext 2005
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