Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An American migratory songbird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), the male of which has black, white, and yellowish plumage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American oscine passerine bird, of the family Icteridæ and subfamily Agelœinæ, the Dolichonyx oryzivorus, named from its hearty voluble song in spring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An American singing bird (
Dolichonyx oryzivorus ). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also,ricebird ,reedbird , andBoblincoln .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
American migratory songbird , Dolichonyx oryzivorus resembling ablackbird with thebill of afinch
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun migratory American songbird
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bobolink is a songbird, and so it provides the music.
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Abdominales_, and _Malacopterygii Subbrachiati_; and the common and beautiful bird called bobolink is _Dolichonyx Orixyvora_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Names of objects like "bobolink" and "raven" may affect us emotionally by the quality of their tone.
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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I expect she knows about every yellow-bird's nest an 'blue jay's an' bobolink's an 'meadowlark's that there 's ben round here these five years, an' how they 's goin 'to set an' hatch without her 's best known to 'emselves, I s'pose.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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Blue-coated, flying before from tree to tree; "but April's bird with me is the robin, brisk, vociferous, musical, dotting every field, and larking it in every grove; he is as easily atop at this season as the bobolink is a month or two later.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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I keep it staying at home with a bobolink for a chorister and an orchard for a dome.
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It was quiet in Small Joy, except for the crazy pinging call of a bobolink and the faint, far-off sound of a rooster.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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I keep it staying at home with a bobolink for a chorister and an orchard for a dome.
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I keep it, staying at home with a bobolink for a chorister and an orchard for a dome.
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With a bobolink [a type of blackbird] for a chorister [singer in the choir],
Dean Sluyter: Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF 2009
bilby commented on the word bobolink
See skunk blackbird.
March 31, 2008
yarb commented on the word bobolink
Citation on donga.
July 30, 2008
bilby commented on the word bobolink
Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
Near to the nest of his little dame,
Over the mountainside or mead,
Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:
Bob-o'link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
Snug and safe is that nest of ours,
Hidden among the summer flowers.
Chee, chee, chee.
- William Cullen Bryant, 'Robert of Lincoln'.
November 17, 2008