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OLD WORLD CHAT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Songbirds having a chattering call

Synonyms:

chat; Old World chat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Old World chat" is a kind of...):

thrush (songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old World chat"):

Saxicola torquata; stonechat (common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast)

Saxicola rubetra; whinchat (brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows)

Holonyms ("Old World chat" is a member of...):

genus Saxicola; Saxicola (Old World chats)

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