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- noun Plural form of
junco .
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Examples
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There will be some more winter visitors, juncoes, towhees and others along with several woodpeckers.
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I think the juncoes have gone, and maybe the touwhee as well, as I don't seem to have seen them for a week or two.
Happy Easter. intertext 2006
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She strewed seeds for the birds, and they flew down in front of her -- juncoes and sparrows, a tufted titmouse, a cardinal blood-red against the whiteness.
Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906
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Birds remain dependent until food sources re-emerge in spring It always pays to look twice at your winter bird feeders, for you never know what might be shouldering in alongside the usual juncoes, cardinals, jays, finches, doves and sparrows.
unknown title 2009
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