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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology: An extensive genus of American orioles or hanguests of the family Icteridæ: so named by Vieillot in 1816 from their pensile or pendulous nests.
- noun A genus of titmice of the family Paridæ: synonymous with Ægithalus.
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