dendroica fusca

1. 1.

   black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat

   SynonymsBlackburnBlackburnian warbler

   BroaderNew World warbler

   Part ofDendroica

Questions about dendroica fusca

What does dendroica fusca mean?

dendroica fusca means "black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat".

What is another word for dendroica fusca?

Close synonyms include Blackburn, Blackburnian warbler. 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 dendroica fusca a common word?

dendroica fusca 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.