Ornith. [mod. L. (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827), f. Gr. ζωστήρ girdle + ὤψ eye.] Any of the small birds of the genus so named, widely distributed chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions, and characterized by a ring of white feathers round the eye; a silver-eye or white-eye.
1867. A. L. Adams, Wand. Nat. India, 71. That beautiful warbler the yellow zosterops, known by the white downy ring round the eye.
1909. J. A. Owen, in Blackw. Mag., Aug., 204/2. It is interesting to watch a Zosterops operating on a pear.
