different between insectivorous vs vireo

English

Etymology

From Latin insectum (“insect”) and -vorus, from vor? (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ns?k?t?v(?)??s/

Adjective

insectivorous (comparative more insectivorous, superlative most insectivorous)

1. Feeding on insects.
2. (of a plant) Capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap.

Synonyms

• insectivorian

Related terms

• Insectivora
• insectivore

Translations

English

Etymology

From translingual Vireo (genus name), from Latin vireo (“I am green”).

Noun

vireo (plural vireos or vireoes)

1. Any of a number of small insectivorous passerine birds, of the genus Vireo, that have grey-green plumage.
   • 1998, Sally Roth, Attracting Birds to Your Backyard, page 257,

     The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.

   • 2007, Jonathan Elphick, The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds, page 72,

     Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.

   • 2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94,

     This^{[the white-eyed vireo]} is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.

2. Any bird of the family Vireonidae, which includes vireos, shrike-vireos, greenlets and peppershrikes.
3. (in in the plural) The family Vireonidae.
   • 1950, Ernest Sheldon Booth, Birds of the West, page 282,

     Family Vireonidae

     Vireos

     The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.

Usage notes

The alternative plural form vireoes appears to be relatively rare and dated.

Derived terms

• shrike-vireo (genus Vireolanius)
• vireonine

Translations

Further reading

• Vireo (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vireo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Vireo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Finnish

Noun

vireo

1. vireo (bird of the genus Vireo)

Declension

Anagrams

• viero

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to increase”). See also Old English wise (“stalk, sprout”), Old Norse visir (“sprout, bud”), Lithuanian veisti (“propagate”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.re.o?/, [?u???eo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.re.o/, [?vi????]

Verb

vire? (present infinitive vir?re, perfect active viru?); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. I am verdant, green; I sprout new green growth.
2. I flourish; I am lively, vigorous.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• virectum
• viridis
• viror

Noun

vire? m (genitive vire?nis); third declension

1. a bird, probably the greenfinch.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: vireo

References

• vireo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vireo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vireo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.