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towhee - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A songbird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of eastern North America having black, white, and rust-colored plumage in the male.
noun Any of several similar birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone, found in western North America.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The chewink, ground-robin, or marsh-robin of the United States, Pipilo erythrophthalmus , or any other species of the genus Pipilo : more fully called towhee bunting
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Zoöl.) The chewink.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun Any of several species of birds of the genera Pipilo and Melozone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun any of numerous long-tailed American finches
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Imitative of the song of some of these birds.]
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So let us call the towhee a finch, and say no more about it.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
Mystery bird: California towhee , Melozone crissalis
Legislation forces archaeologists to rebury finds 2011
Mystery bird: California towhee , Melozone crissalis
Letters: Reburial requirement impedes archaeology 2011
Flocks of phoebe and towhee and dove pushing the cold ahead of them.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
The most common birds seen in the dry summer season are wrentit, common bushtit, and rufous-sided towhee .
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
Of the 20-odd bird species present in mature forest, the most common are the pine warbler, cardinal, summer tanager, Carolina wren, ruby-throated hummingbird, blue jay, hooded warbler, eastern towhee , and tufted titmouse.
Southeastern Mixed Forest Province (Bailey) 2009
I wish I had seen an eastern towhee or a cedar waxwing.
GBBC* 2009 « Fairegarden 2009
The juvenile rufous sided towhee and song,strike that, white throated, thanks Lisa, sparrow pick up the crumbs.
Feeding The Birds « Fairegarden 2008
Music and cats towhee smugsmug kristine uw cowtipper rishabht hartson pbase rockndog rickolis
Other Solstice Parade Pictures patternjuggler 2005
Seen just today: junco, northern flicker, rufous sided towhee sp?
Winter is icumen in... intertext 2005
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