chough
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choughs, plural;
/CHəf/,
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choughs, plural;
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A black Eurasian and North African bird of the crow family, with a down-curved bill and broad rounded wings, typically frequenting mountains and sea cliffs
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- a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
- Two species of chough constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds. These are the Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), and the Alpine or Yellow-billed Chough (P. graculus). Their closest relatives outside the genus appear to be the jackdaws of the genus Corvus. ...
- Two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia; A monotypic bird genus in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands
- A bird believed to be a tattler (Wife 232).