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    NEW WORLD BLACKBIRD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly blackplay

    Synonyms:

    blackbird; New World blackbird

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("New World blackbird" is a kind of...):

    American oriole; New World oriole; oriole (American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New World blackbird"):

    crow blackbird; grackle (long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage)

    Euphagus carilonus; rusty blackbird; rusty grackle (North American blackbird whose bluish-black plumage is rusty-edged in the fall)

    cowbird (North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests)

    Agelaius phoeniceus; red-winged blackbird; redwing (North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings)

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