northern oriole

1. 1.

   a kind of New World oriole

   SynonymsIcterus galbula

   BroaderNew World oriole

   NarrowerBaltimore orioleBullock's oriole

   Part ofIcterus

Questions about northern oriole

What does northern oriole mean?

northern oriole means "a kind of New World oriole".

What is another word for northern oriole?

Close synonyms include Icterus galbula. 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 northern oriole a common word?

northern 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.