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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Corvidae .
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Examples
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I heard Dr. Cissa Wa Numbe, Secretary General UNA of DR Congo, speak with emotion about the dire situation for girls and women in his country.
Marcia G. Yerman: A Different Kind of March Madness Marcia G. Yerman 2011
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I heard Dr. Cissa Wa Numbe, Secretary General UNA of DR Congo, speak with emotion about the dire situation for girls and women in his country.
Marcia G. Yerman: A Different Kind of March Madness Marcia G. Yerman 2011
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Some typical Indochinese birds found here, which are not found west of the Lower Central Plain, include Siamese fireback (Lophura diardi), Indochinese magpie (Cissa hypoleuca), and scaly-crowned babbler (Malacopteron cinereum).
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Birds considered to be endangered or rare are Sri Lanka wood pigeon Columba torringtoni, green-billed coucal Centropus chlororhynchus, Sri Lanka white-headed starling Sturnus senex, Sri Lanka blue magpie Cissa ornata, and ashy-headed babbler Garrulax cinereifrons, all of which are endemic, and red-faced malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus.
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It was destroyed towards the close of the fifth century, by Ella, but rebuilt by his son, Cissa, the second king of the South Saxons, who named it after himself, and made it the royal residence and capital of his dominions.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831 Various
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On the departure of the Romans, Cissa, son of Ella, took possession, and the name was changed to Cissa's Ceastre, hence Chichester.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Cissa, son of Ælle, the Saxon chieftain who landed in 477, the town becoming Cissa's Ceaster, or fort (castrum), and, in tiime,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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"Ælle and Cissa beset Anderida," so ran the pitiless record of the conquerors, "and slew all that were therein, nor was there afterward one Briton left."
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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"Good booty had OElla and Cissa our forbears, but they have left some for us," said Earl Wulfnoth.
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In Sussex, Ælle and Cissa killed or drove out the natives in the western rapes on their first landing, and afterwards massacred every Briton at Anderida.
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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