blackbird, merl, merle, ouzel, ousel, European blackbird, Turdus merula
(noun) common black European thrush
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blackbird (plural blackbirds)
A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere.
A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird).
(slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands.
• (Turdus merula): common blackbird; Eurasian blackbird; merle, merl; ouzel
• (Icteridae): icterid
blackbird (third-person singular simple present blackbirds, present participle blackbirding, simple past and past participle blackbirded)
To enslave someone, especially through chicanery or force
• ictericus
• merula
• merulus
Source: Wiktionary
Black"bird, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelæus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 October 2024
(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; “dateless customs”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
