bell magpie

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   bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call

   Synonymscurrawong

   BroaderAustralian magpie

   Part ofStrepera

Questions about bell magpie

What does bell magpie mean?

bell magpie means "bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call".

What is another word for bell magpie?

Close synonyms include currawong. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bell magpie a common word?

bell magpie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.