oriole

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any of various brightly colored songbirds, including New World orioles of the genus Icterus and Old World orioles of the family Oriolidae

   A flash of orange in the elm revealed a Baltimore oriole.

From Middle French and Old French oriol, ultimately from Latin aureolus, 'golden,' a diminutive of aureus. The name refers to the conspicuous yellow or orange plumage of several birds called orioles and is etymologically a doublet of aureole.

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