Bulbul

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various passerine, chiefly tropical Old World songbirds of the family Pycnonotidae, having grayish or brownish plumage.
  • n. A songbird often mentioned in Persian poetry and thought to be a nightingale.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae, native to Africa and parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The Persian name of the nightingale, or a species of nightingale, rendered familiar in English poetry by Moore, Byron, and others.
  • n. Specifically In ornithology, a bird of the family Pycnonotidæ.
  • n. A name given to the yak.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry
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