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The following 3 entries include the term BLACKHEADED.
black-headed budworm
noun: the bright green brownish headed (black when young) larva of a small variably marked grayish moth (Acleris variana) that is a serious pest of hemlock, spruce, and fir throughout much of the northern U.S. and Canada feeding on the new foliage and webbing it into mats
black-headed grosbeak
noun: a grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus) of western North America that in the adult male has the head black, the neck, rump, and underparts orange-brown, and the belly and under-wing parts yellow, the female being chiefly brown
black-headed gull
noun: a Eurasian gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus synonym Larus ridibundus) that is sometimes found along the northeastern coast of North America and that in breeding plumage has a dark brown head that often appears black
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