Crossword clues for vireo
vireo
- Sweet-singing bird
- Small songbird
- Small insect-eating bird
- Small green bird
- Red-eyed songbird
- Red-eyed ___ (songbird)
- Greenish songbird
- Bird that builds a hanging nest
- Olive-green bird
- New World songbird
- Relative of the greenfinch
- Olive-gray insect-eating bird
- Olive-colored songbird
- Insectivorous songbird
- Certain American songbird
- Bird akin to a warbler
- "Black-capped" or "yellow-throated" songbird
- Red-eyed bird
- Olive-green songbird
- Migratory songbird
- Winged insectivore
- Bird with a cup-shaped nest
- Olive-colored bird
- Bird with red-eyed and yellow-throated varieties
- Any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-gray in color
- Small bird
- Passerine bird
- Sweet American singer
- Insectivorous bird
- Small, red-eyed songbird
- Small American bird
- Olive-gray bird
- Insect-eating songbird
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vireo \Vir"e*o\, n. [L., a species of bird.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonid[ae]. In many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored. Called also greenlet.
Note: In the Eastern United States the most common species are the white-eyed vireo ( Vireo Noveboracensis), the red-eyed vireo ( Vireo olivaceus), the blue-headed, or solitary, vireo ( Vireo solitarius), the warbling vireo ( Vireo gilvus), and the yellow-throated vireo ( Vireo flavifrons). All these are noted for the sweetness of their songs.
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).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus ''Vireo'', that have grey-green plumage. 2 (context in plural English) Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, (vern shrike-vireo pl=s), greenlets and peppershrikes.
WordNet
n. any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-gray in color
Wikipedia
The vireos make up a family, Vireonidae, of small to medium-sized passerine birds (mostly) restricted to the New World. "Vireo" is a Latin word referring to a green migratory bird, perhaps the female golden oriole, possibly the European greenfinch.
They are typically dull-plumaged and greenish in color, the smaller species resembling wood warblers apart from their heavier bills. They range in size from the Chocó vireo, dwarf vireo and lesser greenlet, all at around 10 centimeters and 8 grams, to the peppershrikes and shrike-vireos at up to 17 centimeters and 40 grams.
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 resemble wood warblers apart from their slightly larger size and heavier bills, which in most species have a very small hook at the tip. The legs are stout.
Most species fall into two plumage groups: one with wing-bars and yellow or white eye-rings, and one with unmarked wings and eye-stripes; however, the Chocó vireo has both wing-bars and eye-stripes.
Sexes are alike in all species except for the black-capped vireo, in which the male's crown is black and the female's is gray.
A vireo is a small passerine bird.
Vireo may also refer to:
- Vireo (genus), genus of the vireo birds
- Vickers Vireo, an experimental 1920s aircraft
- USS Vireo (AM-52), a minesweeper laid down in 1918 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard
- USS Vireo (MSC-205), a minesweeper laid down as AMS-205 in 1953 at the Bellingham Shipyards
- Visual Resources for Ornithology (VIREO), a large online repository of bird photographs 1
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.