noun. Any of various passerine, chiefly tropical Old World songbirds of the family Pycnonotidae, most of which have grayish or brownish plumage.

noun. A songbird often mentioned in Persian poetry and thought to be a nightingale.

noun. The Persian name of the nightingale, or a species of nightingale, rendered familiar in English poetry by Moore, Byron, and others.

noun. Specifically In ornithology, a bird of the family Pycnonotidæ.

noun. A name given to the yak.

noun. The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.

noun. Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae, native to Africa and parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.

noun. nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry

"Sultan's temper was sometimes fiery, said foreign officials of the 1960s, but his habit of working long into the night earned him the nickname "bulbul" or "nightingale"."

luscinia megarhynchos  nightingale  

chaffinch  chatterer  cheetah  cockatoo  dreamland  

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