Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the head yellow, or yellow on the head: as, the yellow-headed blackbird. See cut under
Xanthocephalus .
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Examples
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A yellow-headed blackbird throws its head back over its shoulder, singing ecstatically from its perch on a swaying cattail.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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There were so many daffodils - he would carefully slink between them, never breaking a single stalk, lay down in their yellow-headed shade and sleep.
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A yellow-headed blackbird throws its head back over its shoulder, singing ecstatically from its perch on a swaying cattail.
William Horden: The Short Path Of Sudden Enlightenment William Horden 2011
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Xie cited the case of the yellow-headed box turtle, which is endemic to Anhui.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Xie cited the case of the yellow-headed box turtle, which is endemic to Anhui.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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He glanced up; on the wall, just above the Sony, he'd hung her gift, tacking it there with a yellow-headed drawing pin through the hole at its center. closed his eyes.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010
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Xie cited the case of the yellow-headed box turtle, which is endemic to Anhui.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Kingston Hospital, the bitch Chooka Frood and her yellow-headed ghost girl, his pocket-pianino and the man who owned it.
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Joe Wright is a real character: in a Gen X mockery of baby boom imagery, he draws Watchmen-like smiley faces on the yellow-headed 40-mm grenade rounds he carries.
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A most notable arrival of late has been the huge flocks of yellow-headed blackbirds.
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