banana bird

See also: bananabird

English

Icterus leucopteryx

Noun

banana bird (plural banana birds)

1. A small American bird (Icterus leucopteryx) which feeds on bananas.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “banana bird”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

See also

• bananaquit (Certhiola spp.)

References

• “banana bird”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Icterus leucopteryx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia