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Long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
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mockingbird
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Mockingbird is a song by American recording artist Rob Thomas . It is the fourth single from the album Cradlesong , released on April 20, 2010. The song debuted at #50 on the ARIA Charts and, in the US, debuted at 29 on the Adult Pop Songs chart and at ...
Wiktionary
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n. A long-tailed American songbird of the Mimidae family, noted for its ability to mimic calls of other birds.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds [syn: mocker , Mimus polyglotktos ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Equally sudden a peroration of chatter from a local mockingbird broke the silence. ▪ The first group, mimics, consists of the northern mockingbird , the brown thrasher and the gray catbird.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mockingbird \mockingbird\, mocking bird \mocking bird\n. (Zo["o]l.), A long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of North America ( Mimus polyglottos ), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are ...
Usage examples of mockingbird.
Entering by canoe at Shark River, you would be among woodpeckers and mockingbirds, alligators and bullfrogs, garfish and bass, white-tailed deer and possibly otters.
Smiling, laughing, he ran across the field where the peach trees grew and the mockingbirds sang.
CHAPTER 17 The mockingbird perched on the dogwood continued its series of liquid calls even when Sharina rattled the clackers only ten feet away.
One day when I took him into the exhibit area he went directly to a bed pillow stuffed with chicken feathers before World War I, and a few minutes ago he knocked two books off the shelf: To Kill a Mockingbird and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
I do not want to leave the world of mockingbirds, boats, beaches, ladies, love, and peanut butter from Deaf Smith County.
Rick had named it the Mockingbird, a fittingly arrogant name for the undisputed star of the last of the flying circuses.
They lived out in Indian Hills or on Mockingbird Valley Road near the Louisville Country Club, and they owned every bank in the city -- along with both newspapers, all the radio stations that white folks took seriously, and at least half the major distilleries and tobacco companies that funded the municipal tax base.
In the pear tree the mockingbirds idiot reiteration pulsed and purled.
An inventive mockingbird swayed in the top of a punk tree, working some cardinal song into his repertoire.
But all she heard were the familiar scuttlings of squir rels on the roof and a mockingbird singing from the chimney.
Today mockingbirds live in many northern states, but only a few decades ago mockingbirds lived principally in the southeastern United States.
AFTER a while the whippoorwills stopped and I heard the first day bird, a mockingbird.
There was still a good deal of light in the pasture, though the whippoorwills had begun, and when we reached the house there was a mockingbird singing hi the magnolia, the night song now, the drowsy moony one, and again the moon like the rim print of a heel in wet sand.
I compared her shy beauty to the flower of the purple wood sorrel and her pure voice to the song of the mockingbird.