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YELLOWTHROAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellowthroat mean? 

YELLOWTHROAT (noun)
  The noun YELLOWTHROAT has 1 sense:

1. small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throatplay

  Familiarity information: YELLOWTHROAT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YELLOWTHROAT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("yellowthroat" is a kind of...):

New World warbler; wood warbler (small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellowthroat"):

common yellowthroat; Geothlypis trichas; Maryland yellowthroat (an American warbler)

Holonyms ("yellowthroat" is a member of...):

genus Geothlypis; Geothlypis (yellowthroats)


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