Definitions
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- noun rare A
mockingbird .
Etymologies
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From Spanish cenzontle, from Nahuatl centzontli "four hundred", short for centzontlatole "possessor of four hundred songs".
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Examples
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Both wept aloud, their voices being audible to the _centzontle_, on a neighbouring tree -- that catching up the mournful tones repeated them to the ear of night.
The Tiger Hunter Mayne Reid 1850
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