icteria virens

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   American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds

   Synonymsyellow-breasted chat

   BroaderNew World chat

Questions about icteria virens

What does icteria virens mean?

icteria virens means "American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds".

What is another word for icteria virens?

Close synonyms include yellow-breasted chat. 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 icteria virens a common word?

icteria virens 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.