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Definition of Troupial
1. n. Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America.
Definition of Troupial
1. Noun. An oriole, ''Icterus icterus'', with black head, long tail, and bulky bill. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Troupial
1. a tropical bird [n -S]
Medical Definition of Troupial
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Troupial
Literary usage of Troupial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Cage Birds by Henry Beck Hirst (1843)
"CHAPTER I. ICTERIC ORIOLE, OR troupial. GOLDEN- WINGED ORIOLE.—Icterus .
THE Icteric, which so closely resembles the Golden-winged Oriole of South America, ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"The hooded troupial builds a pensile nest composed entirely of grasses, ...
A nest of the Bullock's troupial which I found a few miles out of Tucson, ..."
3. Notes by a Field-naturalist in the Western Tropics: From a Journal Kept on by Henry Hugh Higgins (1877)
"... quoted by Beethoven in his Pastoral Symphony, are not, I think, distinguished
by the interval of either a major or a minor third. A troupial which used ..."
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