chough
IPA: tʃˈoʊ
noun
- Either of 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.
- The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.
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Examples of "chough" in Sentences
- A chough call would be a good thing to add.
- I need at some stage to do a map for Chough.
- Peregrine and Choughs also nest on the cliffs.
- Not all mentions of chough refer to this species.
- It has the image of a chough as an emblem on its front page.
- There is one known prehistoric form of the Red billed Chough.
- Oreb a large black bird, of the kind known as a night chough.
- The three choughs in the first quarter represent the county of Surrey.
- In Cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of Cornwall.
- Also there is a Cornish belief that King Arthur lives in the form of a chough.
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