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CORVINE BIRD

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Meaning:

Birds of the crow family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("corvine bird" is a kind of...):

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

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

crow (black birds having a raucous call)

Corvus corax; raven (large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail)

Corvus frugilegus; rook (common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow)

Corvus monedula; daw; jackdaw (common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery)

chough (a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage)

jay (crested largely blue bird)

nutcracker (speckled birds that feed on nuts)

magpie (long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call)

Holonyms ("corvine bird" is a member of...):

Corvidae; family Corvidae (crow; raven; rook; jackdaw; chough; magpie; jay)

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