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junco

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
''"Junco" is also a shrub in the genus Adolphia and the Spanish term for rushes (genus Juncus ).'' A junco , genus Junco , is a small North American bird. Junco systematics are still confusing after decades of research, with various authors accepting between ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small North American finch seen chiefly in winter [syn: snowbird ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any bird of the genus ''(l mul Junco)'', which includes several species of North American finch.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Junco \Jun"co\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of the genus Junco , which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird , or blue snowbird .

Usage examples of junco.

If you can produce those, Junco, I shall believe in leprechauns, genies, and brown-eyed goddesses.

Of the brunets, in case Junco had removed her cloak, only one was of the right height and slimness, with erect posture and neatly coiled braids.

In the distance were the larger airliners, an Air Canada Jay, a China Airlines Junco, an American Bald Eagle, another Cardinal.

The biggest, like the Junco, even needed metal-composite implants to strengthen their skeletons.

Jets like the Junco needed much less in the way of the metals that cost so much to mine and process.

As the Junco 47 approached the terminal, it converged on the same destination, drawn by a squat, heavy-muscled, squash-faced creature whose rootstock had clearly been a bulldog.

The abbot himself, Brother Junco, was so smitten by the vision of her that he left the order and became yet another absinthe-swilling puppet performance artist in the underbelly of London.

In a slate blouse and slacks, she reminded me of a junco, pert, energetic.

T-adapter, then took a couple of frame-filling shots of a junco and a nuthatch.

In the calm brightness of winter sunshine, filling sheltered copses with warmth and cheer, you will watch the lingering blue-birds and robins and song-sparrows playing at summer, while the chickadees and the juncos and the cross-bills make merry in the windswept fields.

Occasionally, squirrels dashed across the path in front of the travelers, and juncos, nuthatches, and titmice descended from higher branches to investigate or scold.

Jetliners--Alitalia Cardinals, American Eagles, China Air Juncos, each identifiable by coloring or wing configuration--circled, waiting for their turns to land.

He had seen ordinary juncos on the ground beneath the bird feeder at home.

They spoke reverently of forest food webs, of chickarees and insects and mule deer, of coyote and bobcat and pine marten and black bear, of ravens and kinglets and owls, of chickadees and sapsuckers and juncos and woodpeckers.

College Avenue and north on College to Central Avenue crossing the Cascadilla Creek, and downhill to West Avenue and to the suspension bridge above Fall Creek, eastward then to frozen Lake Beebe, along the icy-reedthick shore of Lake Beebe where at dawn juncos and chickadees pierced the air with their sharp, inquisitive cries and he recalled the wild birds at the feeders of High Point Farm, waking to those identical cries, the mysterious speech of birds mixed with his childhood sleep.