Hypertext Webster Gateway: "catbird"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Catbird \Cat"bird\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
An American bird ({Galeoscoptes Carolinensis}), allied to the
mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of
other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times
the mewing of a cat.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
catbird
n 1: any of various birds of the Australian region whose males
build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order
to attract females [syn: {bowerbird}]
2: North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing
[syn: {gray catbird}, {Dumetella carolinensis}]
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