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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Acrocephalidae .
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Hippolais, surpassing the black-cap, and almost equalling the nightingale, for richness and variety of song -- the polyglot warbler which penetrates, in summer, as far north as the shores of the
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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