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Lyrebird has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape

2

Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus Menura, named because of the beautiful tail feathers of the male of one species, the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which can be erected to look like a lyre, and notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
passerine
Rhyming Words
wird jird bird hird gird caird reird third weird baird faird laird upgird oxbird zubird engird begird braird ungird wetbird
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