junco hyemalis

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   common North American junco having grey plumage and eyes with dark brown irises

   Synonymsdark-eyed juncoslate-colored junco

   Broaderjunco

Questions about junco hyemalis

What does junco hyemalis mean?

junco hyemalis means "common North American junco having grey plumage and eyes with dark brown irises".

What is another word for junco hyemalis?

Close synonyms include dark-eyed junco, slate-colored junco. 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 junco hyemalis a common word?

junco hyemalis 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.