Found 2 items, similar to piping crow.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: piping crow
piping crow
n : crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged
[syn:
piping crow-shrike,
Gymnorhina tibicen]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Piping crow
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
(Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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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