Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Gracula .
  • noun A genus of choughs.
  • noun A genus of cormorants: same as Phalacrocorax.

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Examples

  • Among the 102 species of birds are spotted eagle Aquila clanga (VU), golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus, hazel grouse Bonasa bonasia, eagle owl Bubo bubo, black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, three-toed woodpecker Picoides trydactilus and Alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus.

    Pirin National Park, Bulgaria 2008

  • Diogenianus, Adsidet usque graculus apud graculum, they much delight in one another's company,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Birds were scarce, with the exception of alpine pigeons (_Columba leuconota_), red-legged crows (_Corvus graculus, _ L.), and the horned pheasant

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • miluus et pluuiae graculus auctor aquae; uiuit et armiferae cornix inuisa Mineruae, 35

    The Dead Parrot Ovid 1912

  • Si nodurna tibi cornix canit, he (perus aethrae Cum redit; innumero fi cantu graculus inflat;

    Arati Solensis Phaenomena et Diosemea graece et latine ad codd. mss. et optimarvm edd. fidem recensita Buhle, Johann Gottlieb, 1763-1821, ed 1793

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