Definitions for vireos

vireos vir·e·o

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

Vireos is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in vireos (eiorsv).

Definitions for vireos

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 vireos

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

Examples for vireos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for vireos
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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