Definition of Northern oriole

1. Noun. A kind of New World oriole.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Northern Oriole

northern firmoss
northern firmosses
northern flicker
northern flickers
northern flying squirrel
northern harrier
northern hawk owl
northern hawk owls
northern hemisphere
northern holly fern
northern lapwing
northern lapwings
northern lights
northern mammoth
northern oak fern
northern oriole (current term)
northern parula
northern phalarope
northern pike
northern pikes
northern pin oak
northern pitch pine
northern pocket gopher
northern porgy
northern raven
northern red-backed vole
northern red oak
northern screamer
northern scup
northern sea robin

Literary usage of Northern oriole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Working North from Patagonia: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on by Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
"It does not live in single nests, like our northern oriole, but hangs scores and even hundreds of them from the same tree, though there may be countless ..."

2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"English sparrows and starlings often raise young in the base of a heron nest and the northern oriole sometimes hangs its nest on a nearby limb. ..."

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