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NEW WORLD BLACKBIRD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black

Synonyms:

blackbird; New World blackbird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("New World blackbird" is a kind of...):

American oriole; New World oriole; oriole (American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New World blackbird"):

crow blackbird; grackle (long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage)

Euphagus carilonus; rusty blackbird; rusty grackle (North American blackbird whose bluish-black plumage is rusty-edged in the fall)

cowbird (North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests)

Agelaius phoeniceus; red-winged blackbird; redwing (North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings)

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