rain crow
noun
1 US the yellow-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus, and the black-billed cuckoo, C. erythrophthalmus.
2 Caribbean the mangrove cuckoo, Coccyzus minor, and the great lizard cuckoo, Saurothera merlini.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809).
- anaphoric
- anaphorically
- anaphrodisiac
- anaphylactic
- anaphylactic shock
- anaphylaxis
- anapsid
- anaptyctic
- anaptyxis
- anarch
- anarchic
- anarchical
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- anarchism
- anarchist
- anarchistic
- anarcho-capitalism
- anarcho-capitalist
- anarchy
- an army marches on its stomach
- an arrow in the quiver
- an article of faith
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- Anasazi bean
- anastigmat