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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small gray bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of arid regions of Mexico and the southwest United States, having a yellow head and throat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The gold tit, or yellow-headed titmouse, Auriparus flariceps, inhabiting parts of Arizona, California, and southward. It is 4½ inches long, of a grayish color with bright-yellow head. See tit and titmouse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; the goldtit.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably from a variant of French verdon, verdier, yellowhammer, from vert, green (in reference to the yellowish-green hue of the yellowhammer's body), from Old French verd; see verdant.]

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Compare Spanish verdino ("bright green"), French verdin ("yellowhammer").

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