Beccafico

noun

1. Any of various small songbirds that are eaten as a delicacy in Italy and France.
2. An old and disused name of sundry small European birds, chiefly of the family Sylviidæ, or warblers, which peck figs, or were supposed to do so.
3. In extended use One of sundry small American birds, as some of those formerly included in a genus Ficedula.
4. The European golden oriole, Oriolus galbula.
5. A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.