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Catbird

noun

Any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females. Synonym: bowerbird.

North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing. Synonyms: Dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird.

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"Catbird" Quotes from Famous Books

... indigenous plants; and then we got among scale-bark hickories, and there was one that had been fluted from top to bottom by a stroke of lightning; and here the little red squirrels were most unusually abundant and indignant; and there was a catbird that miauled exactly like a cat; and there was a spring among the roots of one great tree, and a broken teacup half buried in ...

— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

Words linked to "Catbird" : satin bowerbird, genus Dumetella, Ptilonorhynchidae, great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis, family Ptilonorhynchidae, Dumetella, satin bird, oscine bird, gray catbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, oscine