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rose-breasted grosbeak definition

☆ rose·-breasted grosbeak (-bres′tid)

a North American passerine bird (Pheucticus ludovicianus, family Emberizidae), the male of which is black and white, with a rose-colored triangular patch on the breast, and pink wing lining

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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