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    AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpiesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Australian magpie" is a kind of...):

    oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Australian magpie"):

    butcherbird (large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns)

    bell magpie; currawong (bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call)

    Gymnorhina tibicen; piping crow; piping crow-shrike (crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged)

    Holonyms ("Australian magpie" is a member of...):

    Cracticidae; family Cracticidae (Australian birds formerly included in the family Laniidae)

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