yellow warbler

noun

1

a

: a small North American warbler (Dendroica petechia) very common throughout the U.S. and frequently breeding in shade trees in cities and villages and having the male bright yellow with brown streaks on the underparts

b

: any of various related warblers of Central America and the West Indies

2

dialectal, England : willow warbler

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