black swan

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   large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill

   SynonymsCygnus atratus

   Broaderswan

   Part ofCygnus

Questions about black swan

What does black swan mean?

black swan means "large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill".

What is another word for black swan?

Close synonyms include Cygnus atratus. 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 black swan a common word?

black swan 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.