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grassquit

The English word “grassquit” has 1 meaning listed here.

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.

Etymology

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

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