chough

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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)

    –noun
  1. A crowlike Old World bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax, especially P. pyrrhocorax, having black plumage and red legs.

Century Dictionary (1 definition)

    –noun
  1. 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.

Wiktionary (2 definitions)

    –noun
  1. Two species of bird in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
  2. A monotypic bird genus in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.

GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)

    –noun
  1. 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 the Alpine chough.

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  1. Middle English.
 

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