chough
any of several crowlike Old World birds, especially Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of Europe.
Origin of chough
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How to use chough in a sentence
The only birds seen were choughs and ravens; ring-ouzels lower down.
Unexplored Spain | Abel ChapmanThese cliffs are also tenanted by ravens and a single pair of choughs.
Unexplored Spain | Abel ChapmanThis may be seen in daws, choughs, pipits, and many other species.
Birds and Man | W. H. HudsonThe Choughs Inn at the west end of the town, not far from the church, is another fine example of late medieval architecture.
Wanderings in Wessex | Edric HolmesThen all Cornwall was ransacked for choughs, to see whether he was "russet-pated."
Cornish Saints and Sinners | J. Henry Harris
British Dictionary definitions for chough
/ (tʃʌf) /
a large black passerine bird, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, of parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, with a long downward-curving red bill: family Corvidae (crows)
alpine chough a smaller related bird, Pyrrhocorax graculus, with a shorter yellow bill
Origin of chough
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