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AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Australian magpie" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Australian magpie"):

butcherbird (large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns)

bell magpie; currawong (bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call)

Gymnorhina tibicen; piping crow; piping crow-shrike (crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged)

Holonyms ("Australian magpie" is a member of...):

Cracticidae; family Cracticidae (Australian birds formerly included in the family Laniidae)

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