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‖ icterus|ˈɪktərəs|
[L., a. Gr. ἴκτερος jaundice; also, a yellowish-green bird, by looking at which jaundiced persons were supposed to be cured.]
1. Path. The disease jaundice.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Icterus, the Jaundice. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 240 Irritation..acting upon the hepatic system, is..the cause of icterus. 1886Lancet 15 May 947/2 [He] pointed out that diabetes was not a disease, but a symptom like icterus.
b. Bot. A disease of plants in which the leaves turn yellow.
[1807Edin. Rev. XI. 85 To the natural decay of the leaves in Autumn, he has given the name of Icterus.] 1866Treas. Bot., Icterus, a name given to the yellow condition assumed by wheat and some other plants, under the influence of prolonged wet and cold... The golden hues of autumn belong clearly to another category.
2. Zool.
a. A genus of American passerine birds, formerly nearly coextensive with the modern family Icteridæ, now restricted to the American orioles or hangbirds, a typical species being the troopial or icteric oriole, I. vulgaris (see icteric A. 2).
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. (1749) II. 25 note, The nest of the Guira tangeima, the Icterus minor, and the Jupujuba, or whatever other name the American Hang-nests may be called by. |