Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various birds, such as the Baltimore oriole, having bright scarlet or orange plumage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The vermilion flycatcher, Pyrocephalus rubineus. one of the South American fire-crowned flycatchers, represented in the southwestern United States by the subspecies P. rubineus mexicanus.
- noun A popular name of the Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula. See
oriole .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The Baltimore oriole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The scarlet tanager, a species of bird with taxonomic name Piranga olivacea
- noun The Baltimore oriole, a species of bird with taxonomic name Icterus galbula
- noun The vermilion flycatcher, a species of bird with taxonomic name Pyrocephalus rubinus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the male is bright red with black wings and tail
- noun eastern subspecies of northern oriole
- noun tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage
Etymologies
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Examples
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As well as calling Miss Bruce his 'firebird', unmarried Oakey had also scrawled messages inside such as, 'I love you Fiona'.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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A stalker who bombarded Fiona Bruce with love letters calling her his 'firebird' avoided being sent to jail yesterday despite being criticised by the judge.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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* Set dynamic config value with arithmetic operation. function set_config_count ($config_name, $increment, $is_dynamic = false) global $db, $cache; switch ($db - > sql_layer) case 'firebird':
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* Set dynamic config value with arithmetic operation. function set_config_count ($config_name, $increment, $is_dynamic = false) global $db, $cache; switch ($db - > sql_layer) case 'firebird':
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* Set dynamic config value with arithmetic operation. function set_config_count ($config_name, $increment, $is_dynamic = false) global $db, $cache; switch ($db - > sql_layer) case 'firebird':
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* Set dynamic config value with arithmetic operation. function set_config_count ($config_name, $increment, $is_dynamic = false) global $db, $cache; switch ($db - > sql_layer) case 'firebird':
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* Set dynamic config value with arithmetic operation. function set_config_count ($config_name, $increment, $is_dynamic = false) global $db, $cache; switch ($db - > sql_layer) case 'firebird':
phpBB.com busterkat 2009
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* Set dynamic config value with arithmetic operation. function set_config_count ($config_name, $increment, $is_dynamic = false) global $db, $cache; switch ($db - > sql_layer) case 'firebird':
phpBB.com 2009
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$db - > sql_freeresult ($result); break; case 'firebird': global $dbname;
phpBB.com Comkid 2010
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I have a question about manual steering on second generation camaros? was manual steering availiable on all the second generation camaro or firebird cars 1970 to 1981?
Generation Manual | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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