icterus

(ik’te-rus), m. [NL., ixtepoc, jaundice; also a bird of a yellowish green color, by looking at which, according to the simple therapeutics of the ancients, a jaundiced person was cured—the bird died; ef. ixtepiac (se. AiGoc), Li icterias, a yellowish kind of stone.] 1. The jaundice.— 2. In bot., a yellow appearance a umed by wheat and some other plants under the influence of prolonged a exposure to moisture and cold.—38, [eap.] In ornith., a Bri on i an (1760) genus of birds, approximately equivalent to the modern family Icteride; subsequently used with various limitations, or as conterminous with the subfamily Icterine; now restricted to the American orioles or hangnests, such as the Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula. The type is technically considered to be the troopial,. Oriolus icterus (Linnus), now called Icterus vulgar is. See cut under troopial.—4, [cap.] A genus of mammals. Griffith, 1827.