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merle
merle 1 also merl M0230825 (mûrl)n. See blackbird.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin merulus, merula.]
merle 2 M0230825 (mûrl)adj. Having a coat with irregular streaks or speckles of a contrasting color. Used of certain dogs.n. A dog with a merle coat.
[Perhaps from merle.]merle (mɜːl; Scottish mɛrl) or merln (Animals) Scot another name for the (European) blackbird[C15: via Old French from Latin merula]
merle (mɜːl) adj (Animals) (of a dog, esp a collie) having a bluish-grey coat with speckles or streaks of black. Often called: blue merle [C20: from dialect mirlet, mirly speckled]black•bird (ˈblækˌbɜrd)
n. 1. any of several birds of the New World subfamily Icterinae (family Emberizidae) having shiny black or mostly black plumage, as the red-winged blackbird. 2. a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill. 3. a Kanaka who was kidnapped and sold as a slave in Australia. v.i. 4. to kidnap Kanakas and sell them into slavery. [1480–90] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  merle - common black European thrush European blackbird, merl, ousel, ouzel, Turdus merula, blackbirdthrush - songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breastgenus Turdus, Turdus - type genus of the Turdidae |
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Synonyms for merlenoun common black European thrushSynonyms- European blackbird
- merl
- ousel
- ouzel
- Turdus merula
- blackbird
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