COWBIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cowbird mean? 

• COWBIRD (noun)
  The noun COWBIRD has 1 sense:

1. North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests

  Familiarity information: COWBIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COWBIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cowbird" is a kind of...):

blackbird; New World blackbird (any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black)

Holonyms ("cowbird" is a member of...):

genus Molothrus; Molothrus (cowbirds)