Gymnorhina tibicen

Gymnorhina tibicen
    n 1: crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged
         [syn: {piping crow}, {piping crow-shrike}, {Gymnorhina
         tibicen}]
    

Piping \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From {Pipe}, v.]
   1. Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping
      swains." --Swift.
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   2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of
      the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak.
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   3. Emitting a high, shrill sound.
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   4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound
      of boiling fluids.
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   {Piping crow}, {Piping crow shrike}, {Piping roller} (Zool.),
      any Australian bird of the genus {Gymnorhina}, esp.
      {Gymnorhina tibicen}, which is black and white, and the
      size of a small crow. Called also {caruck}.

   {Piping frog} (Zool.), a small American tree frog ({Hyla
      Pickeringii}) which utters a high, shrill note in early
      spring.

   {Piping hot}, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.]
      --Milton.
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Magpie \Mag"pie\, n. [OE. & Prov. E. magot pie, maggoty pie, fr.
   Mag, Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and
   common name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita
   pearl, Gr. ?, prob. of Eastern origin. See {Pie} magpie, and
   cf. the analogous names {Tomtit}, and {Jackdaw}.] (Zool.)
   Any one of numerous species of the genus {Pica} and related
   genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
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   2. Any one of several black-and-white birds, such as
      {Gymnorhina tibicen}, not belonging to the genus {Pica}.
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   Note: The common European magpie ({Pica pica}, or {Pica
         caudata}) is a black and white noisy and mischievous
         bird. It can be taught to speak. The American magpie
         ({Pica Hudsonica}) is very similar. The yellow-belled
         magpie ({Pica Nuttalli}) inhabits California. The blue
         magpie ({Cyanopolius Cooki}) inhabits Spain. Other
         allied species are found in Asia. The Tasmanian and
         Australian magpies are crow shrikes, as the white
         magpie ({Gymnorhina organicum}), the black magpie
         ({Strepera fuliginosa}), and the Australian magpie
         ({Cracticus picatus}).
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   3. A talkative person; a chatterbox.
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   {Magpie lark} (Zool.), a common Australian bird ({Grallina
      picata}), conspicuously marked with black and white; --
      called also {little magpie}.

   {Magpie moth} (Zool.), a black and white European geometrid
      moth ({Abraxas grossulariata}); the harlequin moth. Its
      larva feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes.
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