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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Deathbird

· Death·bird · IPA
01 n. Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
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    Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.(Zool.)