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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A white North American swan (Olor columbianus) having a soft, musical trumpeting voice and a black beak with a yellow spot at the base.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative name for the Bewick's swan
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Zoöl.) An American swan (Olor columbianus). See under Swan.
WordNet 3.0
- n. North American subspecies of tundra swan having a soft whistling note
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The Organism Orchestra
List of organism names, common or scientific, with a musical instrument as part of the name, such as banjofish, or words and phrases such as birdsong or dawn chorus that suggest music produced by a...
banjofish, birdsong, dawn chorus, fiddler crab, piano fangblenny, trumpeter swan, banjo catfish, harp seal, songbird, guitarfish, cornetfish, flutefish and 53 more...
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whistling swan, horned vipers, amphipods, blue-spotted boxfish, amberjacks, common suckers, flying fish, fantail flounders, little woodstars, starry sturgeons, alabama shads, red-bellied racers and 27 more...
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