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Small songbird
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vireo
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vireo is a genus of small passerine birds restricted to the New World . Vireos typically have dull greenish plumage (hence the name, from Latin virere , "to be green"), but some are brown or gray on the back and some have bright yellow underparts. They ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small American bird, 1834, a modern use of Latin vireo , a word Pliny applied to some kind of bird, believed to be the European greenfinch, from virere "be green" (see verdure ).
Usage examples of vireo.
But so we do not leave Lowespass undefended, I recommend that Tornado and Vireo, and Staniel remain here with the Awian Fyrd.
Carried away, they began to chase Insects to the bridge, Tawny and Vireo marching ahead of the shield wall.
Drake, Drake Vireo, about six foot two, dark hair, green eyes, gorgeous voice is a .
Now, my first command is for you to lead me to where Drake Vireo, the green wyvern, lives.
Drake Vireo, the green wyvern, who was to steal the other two pieces, yes?
Otherworld, I, Aisling Grey, Guardian of the portals of Abaddon, do hereby issue a formal challenge of transcendence to the one who is mated to me, Drake Vireo, the wyvern of the green dragons.
Drake Vireo, wyvern to the green dragon sept, will accept your challenge, body to body.
A arge-towing Allied expedition was made up of two cargo ships, motor torpedo boat tender Jamestown, fleet tug Vireo and two destroyers, each towing a barge carrying 2000 barrels of gasoline and 500 quarter-ton bombs.
Would the sun shine for us more bravely, or the flowers give forth a sweeter breath, or yonder warbling vireo, hidden in her leafy choir, send down more pure and musical descants, sweetly attuned by natural magic to woo and win our thoughts from vanity and hot desires into a harmony with the tranquil thoughts of God?
In a vireo, a virtual reality video, it might have been some vast room or hive, swarming with busy technicians, black-clad warriors abuzz with frantic purpose.
Anna was attending Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, and Jeannette, since mid-April, had been living on Long Island with the family of her editor at the Vireo Press.
Just so have the swifts left the hollow trees and taken to my chimney, the phoebe to my pigpen, the swallow to my barn loft, the vireo to my lilac bush, the screech owls to my apple trees, the red squirrel for its nest to my ice-house, and the flat-nosed adder to the sandy knoll by my beehives.
Bradford Torrey succeeded, after a few experiments, in so dispelling the fears of an incubating red-eyed vireo that she would take insect food from his hand, and I have known several persons to become so familiar with the chickadees that they would feed from the hand, and in some instances even take food from between the lips.
That would be Drake Vireo, the green wyvern, the dragon whose mate you say you are not?
Drake Vireo, wyvern of the green dragons, accept and acknowledge your fealty.