Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An American oriole of the family Icteridæ and subfamily Icterinæ: so called from its pensile purse-like nest. The Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula, and the orchard oriole, I. spurius, are the best-known hangbirds. Also called
hangnest and hanging-bird. See cut underoriole . - n. Some other bird which builds a hanging nest.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.
WordNet 3.0
- n. eastern subspecies of northern oriole
Examples
“There are notes of joy from the hangbird and wren,”
“The old pond seems glad to have us go, and the fire-hangbird's nest in the willer tree waves us good-bye.”
“The old pond seems glad to have us go, and the fire-hangbird's nest in the willer-tree waves us good-by.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hangbird’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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birds
birds with singular names from
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hangbird.
bilby I know which wordgame these birds like to play ;-) Dec 7, 2007
reesetee Obsolete nickname for the Northern Oriole, so called because so called because its nest is a woven pendant bag of plant fibers, bark, and string suspended from the tip of a branch. Dec 7, 2007