corvus corax

1. 1.

   large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail

   Synonymsraven

   Broadercorvine bird

   Part ofCorvus

Questions about corvus corax

What does corvus corax mean?

corvus corax means "large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail".

What is another word for corvus corax?

Close synonyms include raven. 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 corvus corax a common word?

corvus corax 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.