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MOCKING THRUSH

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Meaning:

Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs

Synonyms:

mocking thrush; thrasher

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mocking thrush" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mocking thrush"):

brown thrasher; brown thrush; Toxostoma rufums (common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage)

Holonyms ("mocking thrush" is a member of...):

genus Toxostoma; Toxostoma (thrashers)

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