Definition of "greenlet" []

• Any of various small greenish birds of the genus Hylophilus of Central and South America, related to the vireos. (noun)

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• "But the red-eyed greenlet is rather a wood-bird, and we must not look for his nest in the village."
• "His brother, the white-eyed greenlet, frequently builds in towns, even in the ornamental trees of our largest cities, in the fine sycamores of the older streets of Philadelphia, for instance."
• "At last we had before us the rare and long-desired Philadelphia greenlet."