american oriole

Questions about american oriole

What does american oriole mean?

american oriole means "American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow".

What is another word for american oriole?

Close synonyms include New World oriole, oriole. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american oriole a common word?

american oriole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.