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.
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n. nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry
Word Usage
"Sultan's temper was sometimes fiery, said foreign officials of the 1960s, but his habit of working long into the night earned him the nickname "bulbul" or "nightingale"."