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Wiktionary
n. Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus ''Menura'', named because of the beautiful tail feathers of one species, the superb lyrebird ((taxlink Menura novaehollandiae species noshow=1)) which can be erected to look like a lyre, most notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.
WordNet
n. Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape
Wikipedia
A lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, that form the genus, Menura, and the family Menuridae. They are most notable for their superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. As well as their extraordinary mimicking ability, lyrebirds are notable because of the striking beauty of the male bird's huge tail when it is fanned out in display; and also because of their courtship display. Lyrebirds have unique plumes of neutral-coloured tailfeathers and are among Australia's best-known native birds.
LyreBird (Tales of Helpmann) is a play by Tyler Coppin about the life and career of Australian dancer, actor, director and choreographer Sir Robert Helpmann. The one-man play premiered at the 1998 Adelaide Festival of Arts before touring Australia and to New Zealand. LyreBird Tales of Helpmann has been performed at the Sydney Opera House ( Sydney Theatre Company), the City of London Festival, venues in the UK, and the 1999 and 2001 Edinburgh Festival. In 2007 the show played at the State Theatre Company of South Australia (Adelaide), and in 2008 performed at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, HotHouse Theatre (Albury Wodonga), and at venues throughout southern Australia. LyreBird played at the 24th Street Theatre in Sacramento, California, 5 to 22 February 2009.
Usage examples of "lyrebird".
He probably expected her to perform human-made music only, but Lyrebird was a bird of a different feather altogether.
Actually, today Lyrebird was ravenous and wanted to be able to eat without worrying about delicate dagging and fragile lace.
He kept glancing over at Lyrebird with a certain awe and speculation in his eyes.
I was enjoying the anonymity that kept them from manipulating me, and enjoying my notoriety as Lyrebird too much.
Byzantine, houris-and-candied-figs visions of men in cutaway coats and pasha pants walking around inside the beetle-browed, half-timbered hotel on Stupartska with their upper torsos separated from their lower, summoning leopards and lyrebirds out of the air.
Their ladies had been allowed more latitude and they promenaded along the greensward in total avian extravagance, using the plumes of ostrich, egret, lyrebirds, peacocks and vesprils.
And, landing often, he practiced his archery on lorikeets and lyrebirds and boobies, or stalked the golden cockatoos with his blowgun.