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noun
- a common North American songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, that winters in South America.
noun
- an American songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the male of which has a white back and black underparts in the breeding season: family Icteridae (American orioles)Also called (US): reedbird, ricebird
1796, American English, from bob-o-Lincoln (1774), imitative of the call of the bird.