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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family 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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