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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blackbird \Black"bird\, n. 1. Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian. [Cant] 2. A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called also {Kanaka}. [Australia] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blackbird \Black"bird\ (bl[a^]k"b[~e]rd), n. (Zo["o]l.) In England, a species of thrush ({Turdus merula}), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the {Quiscalus versicolor}, or crow blackbird; the {Agel[ae]us ph[oe]niceus}, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc See {Redwing}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: blackbird n 1: any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black [syn: {New World blackbird}] 2: common black European thrush [syn: {merl}, {merle}, {ouzel}, {ousel}, {European blackbird}, {Turdus merula}]
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