Definitions for vireo

vireo vir·e·o

Spelling: [vir-ee-oh]
IPA: /ˈvɪr iˌoʊ/

Vireo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in vireo (eiorv).

Definitions for vireo

noun

  1. any of several small, insectivorous American birds of the family Vireonidae, having the plumage usually olive-green or gray above and white or yellow below.

Origin of vireo

1825-35; New Latin; Latin vireō (Pliny), probably the greenfinch, derivative of virēre to be green

Examples for vireo

Mrs. vireo was at her mother's, and she believed they would not come back to tea.

The vireo had stopped singing and was swinging on a bough above them.

This was a wind to drive the vireo at a fine pace over the bay.

For one instant I thought, Can it be the Philadelphia vireo?

He had thought of the vireo, which lay moored at the wharf in the inlet.

The two parts of the m. gastrocnemius are most distinct in vireo.

Mr. Bicknell says it is the only vireo that sings as it flies.

The muscle is larger in vireo than in any of the other species examined.

It was a vireo's nest; but it was too large, too downy, too yellow for Red-eye.

Yet the vireo is more common than two-thirds of the birds he knows.

Word Value for vireo
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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