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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- A crowlike Old World bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax, especially P. pyrrhocorax, having black plumage and red legs.
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Century Dictionary (1 definition)
- An oscine passerine bird of the family Corvidæ, the red-legged or Cornish crow, Fregilus or Pyrrhocorax graculus, of a black color, with red feet and beak. It is of very extensive though irregular distribution. Though a corvine bird, it has some relationship with the starlings. Also called, specifically, Cornish chough. There are other species, natives of Australia, Java, etc. Palsgrave applies the name to a young crow.
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Wiktionary (2 definitions)
- Two species of bird in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
- A monotypic bird genus in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.
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GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)
- A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called
chauk ,chauk-daw ,chocard ,Cornish chough ,red-legged crow . The name is also applied to several allied birds, as theAlpine chough .
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WordNet (1 definition)
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