Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nightingale.
- noun A genus of birds represented by the nightingale, giving name to a subfamily or family of Old World oscine Passeres.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A genus of birds including the nightingale
Luscinia megarhyncos .
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- noun nightingales
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A number of these restricted-range species are threatened, including the critically endangered Mariana crow (Corvus kubaryi) and Rota bridled white-eye (Zosterops rotensis), the endangered Micronesian megapode (Megapodius laperouse), Guam swiftlet (Collacalia bartschi), Nightingale reed-warbler (Acrocephalus luscinia), and vulnerable Tinian Monarch (Monarcha takatsukasae) and golden white-eye (Cleptornis marchei).
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1 No species of the true nightingale (Daulias luscinia) is found in North America; the so-called "Virginia nightingale" is the cardinal or red-bird
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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