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Definition of "yellow-browed" []

  • In ornithology, having a yellow superciliary line: as, the yellow-browed warbler, Phylloscopus superciliosus. See cut under Phylloscopus.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "yellow-browed" in a sentence
  • "Like the yellow-browed warbler, they are Russian, most breeding east of the Urals across Siberia and wintering to the south."
  • "Think of the scene in September 1908, the men perched and clinging to the geo just like a creeping yellow-browed warbler, a bird Eagle Clarke described as “a favourite with me.”"
  • "It seems most likely that the yellow-browed warbler, having gone southwest where it should have gone southeast, would continue in this aberrant direction and fly on west out over an ocean that has no refuges, no green skirts, for thousands of miles."