catbird

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catbird - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Catbird \Cat"bird\, n. (Zool.)
     An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the
     mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of
     other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times
     the mewing of a cat.
     [1913 Webster]

catbird - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  catbird
      n 1: any of various birds of the Australian region whose males
           build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to
           attract females [syn: bowerbird, catbird]
      2: North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing
         [syn: catbird, grey catbird, gray catbird, Dumetella   carolinensis
         ]