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greenlet|ˈgriːnlɪt|
[f. green a. + -let; app. formed to render the etymological sense of L. vireō.]
A name for the numerous species of small greenish American singing-birds of the genus Vireo or family Vireonidæ.
1831Swainson Fauna Bor. Amer. II. 233, 1. Vireo olivaceus (Bonaparte), Red-eyed Greenlet. Ibid. 235, 2. Vireo Bartramii (Swainson), Bartram's Greenlet. Ibid. 237 Vireo longirostris (Swainson), Long-billed Greenlet. 1869J. Burroughs in Galaxy Mag. Aug., The Vireos, or Greenlets, are a sort of connecting-link between the Warblers and the true Fly-catchers. 1884–5Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 513 The greenlets reach their highest development in the genus Cyclorhis. 1895C. Dixon in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 645 The Vireonidæ or greenlets. |