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n. - American songbird; Mostly tropical songbird.

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  • The pensile nest of the oriole is more striking and peculiar, as well as much more neat than any other.
  • The oriole is the easiest to hear, but in the background is the wood thrush.
  • Besides all this, the oriole is a neighborly little body; and that helps her.
  • "Somebody in a book called the oriole Orestes, because that means dweller in the woods," Tom ventured.
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