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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white swan (Cygnus olor) native to Europe and Asia and widely introduced elsewhere, having an orange bill with a black knob at the base and being the least vocal of the swans.
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- noun a white swan,
Cygnus olor , found throughoutEurope and much ofAsia , having a distinctiveorange bill with ablack tip ; it is not actually mute, but is not veryvocal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated
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