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o·ri·ole

(ôr′ē-ōl′)

1. Any of various Eurasian, African, or Australian birds of the family Oriolidae, the males of which often have black and bright yellow or green plumage.

2. Any of various similar birds of the family Icteridae found throughout the Americas, the males of which have primarily black and yellow or orange plumage.

[Obsolete French oriol, from Old French, from Latin aureolus, diminutive of aureus, golden, from aurum, gold.]

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oriole

(ˈɔːrɪˌəʊl)

1. (Animals) any songbird of the mainly tropical Old World family Oriolidae, such as Oriolus oriolus (golden oriole), having a long pointed bill and a mostly yellow-and-black plumage

2. (Animals) any American songbird of the family Icteridae, esp those of the genus Icterus, such as the Baltimore oriole, with a typical male plumage of black with either orange or yellow

[C18: from Medieval Latin oryolus, from Latin aureolus, diminutive of aureus, from aurum gold]

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o•ri•ole

(ˈɔr iˌoʊl, ˈoʊr-)

n.

1. any of various New World songbirds of the subfamily Icterinae (family Emberizidae), the males of which are usu. black and orange or black and yellow. Compare northern oriole.

2. any of various Old World songbirds of the family Oriolidae, as the golden oriole, Oriolus oriolus, having a bright yellow body and black wings and tail.

[1770–80; < New Latin, Medieval Latin oriolus < Old French oriol (French loriot) < Latin aureolus golden]

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Noun	1.	oriole - mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black Old World oriole oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus family Oriolidae, Oriolidae - Old World orioles golden oriole, Oriolus oriolus - bright yellow songbird with black wings fig-bird - greenish-yellow Australian oriole feeding chiefly on figs and other fruits
	2.	oriole - American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow American oriole, New World oriole oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus family Icteridae, Icteridae - American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks Icterus galbula, northern oriole - a kind of New World oriole Icterus spurius, orchard oriole - the male is chestnut-and-black lark, meadowlark - North American songbirds having a yellow breast cacique, cazique - black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird - migratory American songbird blackbird, New World blackbird - any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black

Translations

авлига

oriole

oriolo rigogolo

oriole

[ˈɔːrɪəʊl] N golden oriole → oropéndola f

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oriole

n → Pirol m

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With green leaves the peach-trees are loaded, The breeze blows gently along the stream, Willows shade the winding path, Darting orioles collect in groups.

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Harling, and while I loosened the earth around the tree, she sat down on the steps and talked about the oriole family that had a nest in its branches.

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There was the spot where the Indian pipes grew; the particular bit of marshy ground where the fringed gentians used to be largest and bluest; the rock maple where she found the oriole's nest; the hedge where the field mice lived; the moss-covered stump where the white toadstools were wont to spring up as if by magic; the hole at the root of the old pine where an ancient and honorable toad made his home; these were the landmarks of her childhood, and she looked at them as across an immeasurable distance.

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My stomach is heavy in me, and yet it heaves up and down like an oriole's nest at the end of a branch."

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But to believe in the collar bone, in the full line and in the stars, is as ridiculous as to believe with the inhabitants of Grand-Cathay that the golden oriole turns into a mole, and that grains of wheat turn into fish of the carp species."

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Not even a lark or an oriole, those mild plantation birds, ever visited my clearing.

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The oriole should build and tell His love-tale, close beside my cell; The idle butterfly Should rest him there, and there be heard The housewife-bee and humming bird.

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