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noun, plural -cos.
any of several small North American finches of the genus Junco.
Also called snowbird.
Compare dark-eyed junco, slate-colored junco.
Origin:
1700–10; < Spanish: rush, bird found in rush beds < Latin juncus rush
1700–10; < Spanish: rush, bird found in rush beds < Latin juncus rush
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junco
1706, from Sp. junco "reed, bush," as in junco ave "reed sparrow," a bird of the Indies.
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