Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the crow-shrikes, Gymnorhina organicum, found in Tasmania: a near relative of the Australian piping-crow.
- noun In South America, a wren, Cyphorhinus cantans.
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Examples
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And when I listen to Rima's voice, talking in a language I cannot understand, I hear the wind whispering in the leaves, the gurgling running water, the bee among the flowers, the organ-bird singing far, far away in the shadows of the trees.
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I afterwards found that the bird is called by the Portuguese the realejo, or organ-bird (_Cyphorhinus cantans_).
On the Banks of the Amazon William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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This is the organ-bird -- the most remarkable songster by far (says Bates) of the Amazonian forests.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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And when I listen to Rima’s voice, talking in a language I cannot understand, I hear the wind whispering in the leaves, the gurgling running water, the bee among the flowers, the organ-bird singing far, far away in the shadows of the trees.
Green Mansions 2004
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The bird that only chirps and twitters can never sing like the organ-bird.”
Green Mansions 2004
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The bird that only chirps and twitters can never sing like the organ-bird. "
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