northern oriole

== English == === Noun === northern oriole (plural northern orioles) (archaic) A vernacular name applied to all members of Icterus galbula when that species name included both the eastern Baltimore oriole (now in a more narrowly circumscribed species Icterus galbula) and the western Bullock's oriole (now separated as Icterus bullockii). [from–1973 to 1995]