ACCENTOR

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Meaning:

Small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("accentor" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accentor"):

dunnock; hedge sparrow; Prunella modularis; sparrow (small brownish European songbird)

Holonyms ("accentor" is a member of...):

genus Prunella; Prunella (type genus of the Prunellidae)

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