bulbul

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She was looking like a bulbul, a gazelle, and a tea-rose, and her eyes were as soft and bright as two quarts of cream skimmed off from the Milky Way.

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  1. noun Any of various passerine, chiefly tropical Old World songbirds of the family Pycnonotidae, having grayish or brownish plumage.
  2. noun A songbird often mentioned in Persian poetry and thought to be a nightingale.

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  • Dancing between worlds: sleep, wakefulness in the hotel bedroom, memory of the things he did to her limbic centers through the hours of the night that had her singing like a bulbul , the world of the djinns. —  Asimov's SF, July 2006
  • Pheromone baits can be used to rid a garden of flying insects, or reflective items can be set up to scare away pesky birds such as the bulbul, which likes to eat tomatoes, Brian said. —  Starbulletin Headlines
  • Big trees with large canopies are not suited for birds like the bulbul and sparrows. —  The Times of India
  • A hungry man won't eat the bulbul, because how could you eat a bird that sings? —  New Statesman
  • This yellow-vented bulbul is also known as the Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus) but there is nothing common about its beautiful color. —  The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
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  1. Persian, from Arabic.

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  1. = Arabic Turkish Hindustani bulbul, from Persian bulbul, a nightingale; prob. imitative; cf. bullen-bullen.
  2. East Indian
 

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/ˈbəlbəl/
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