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Yellowhammer

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Noun

1. colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker, yellowhammer

large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail

2. emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting, yellowhammer

European bunting the male being bright yellow

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Yellowhammer

see synonyms of yellowhammer
noun
1. 
a European bunting, Emberiza citrinella, having a yellowish head and body and brown streaked wings and tail
2. US and Canadian
the yellow-shafted flicker, an American woodpecker
flicker2

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Yellowhammer

see synonyms of yellowhammer
noun
1. 
a small European bunting (Emberiza citrinella) having a yellow head, neck, and breast
2.  US
yellow-shafted flicker

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Yellowhammer

see synonyms of yellowhammer
n.
1. A small bunting (Emberiza citrinella) native to Eurasia and northern Africa and introduced into New Zealand, having bright yellow plumage on the head, neck, and breast.
2. See yellow-shafted flicker.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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