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Catbird

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Noun

1. bowerbird, catbird

any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females

2. catbird, dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird

North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Catbird

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noun
1. 
any of several North American songbirds of the family Mimidae (mockingbirds), esp Dumetella carolinensis, whose call resembles the mewing of a cat
2. 
any of several Australian bowerbirds of the genera Ailuroedus and Scenopoeetes, having a catlike call

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Catbird

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noun
a slate-gray North American passerine bird (Dumetella carolinensis) with a black crown and tail: it makes a mewing sound like that of a cat and is in the same family (Mimidae) as the mockingbirds and thrashers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Catbird

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n.
1. A songbird (Dumetella carolinensis) of North and Central America having predominantly slate plumage and a cry like the mew of a cat.
2. Any of various other species of birds having a similar cry, especially one of several birds of Australia and New Guinea related to the bowerbirds.

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