New World oriole (redirected from Icterus (genus))

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New World oriole - American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow American oriole, oriole oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus family Icteridae, Icteridae - American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks Icterus galbula, northern oriole - a kind of New World oriole Icterus spurius, orchard oriole - the male is chestnut-and-black lark, meadowlark - North American songbirds having a yellow breast cacique, cazique - black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird - migratory American songbird blackbird, New World blackbird - any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black