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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The black-whiskered vireo or greenlet of Cuba, the Bahamas, and Florida, Vireo barbatulus: so called in imitation of its note.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native to the West Indies and Florida.

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In imitation of its notes.

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