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- noun Plural form of
junco .
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Examples
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Soon, our winter residents, such as juncos and white-throated sparrows, will all have left for their breeding grounds.
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'juncos' aquella Ilha a carregar della, e dalli a levaram aos portos de
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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A few red-backed dark-eyed juncos showed up, their feathers extravagantly fluffed out against the cold.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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A few red-backed dark-eyed juncos showed up, their feathers extravagantly fluffed out against the cold.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The day of my recital I woke to the songs of birds—chickadees, juncos, and sparrows, the ones that stay behind, even in winter.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The day of my recital I woke to the songs of birds—chickadees, juncos, and sparrows, the ones that stay behind, even in winter.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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A few red-backed dark-eyed juncos showed up, their feathers extravagantly fluffed out against the cold.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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If I have any criticism, it's only that they're usually the same handful of species — chickadees, titmouse, blue jays, juncos, goldfinch, nuthatches, mourning doves, cardinals, purple finch.
Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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A few red-backed dark-eyed juncos showed up, their feathers extravagantly fluffed out against the cold.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Out the bedroom window a pair of slate-colored juncos flap and flutter at a feeder.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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