red-eyed vireo

1. 1.

   of northern North America having red irises and an olive-grey body with white underparts

   SynonymsVireo olivaceous

   Broadervireo

Questions about red-eyed vireo

What does red-eyed vireo mean?

red-eyed vireo means "of northern North America having red irises and an olive-grey body with white underparts".

What is another word for red-eyed vireo?

Close synonyms include Vireo olivaceous. 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 red-eyed vireo a common word?

red-eyed vireo 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.