Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the piping crow, Gymnorhina tibicen.
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Examples
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I thought of the rialejo, the celebrated organbird or flute-bird, and of the various ways in which hearers are affected by it.
Green Mansions 2004
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There was no sound anywhere save the brawling water or the lonely cry of the flute-bird.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 01 Gilbert Parker 1897
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There was no sound anywhere save the brawling water or the lonely cry of the flute-bird.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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There was no sound anywhere save the brawling water or the lonely cry of the flute-bird.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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I thought of the rialejo, the celebrated organbird or flute-bird, and of the various ways in which hearers are affected by it.
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[Cyphorhinus Cantans; called also the flute-bird.]
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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