English Explanatory Dictionary

grassquit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several small tropical birds now placed in the tanager family Thraupidae (but previously in Emberizidae), common in the West Indies and in countries of Central and South America around the Caribbean Sea.

Word forms

grassquit grassquits

Etymology

From grass + quit (“small passerine bird”).

Derived words

black-faced grassquit blue-black grassquit Cuban grassquit dull-coloured grassquit sooty grassquit yellow-faced grassquit yellow-shouldered grassquit
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