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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Psarocolius_decumanus_-Trinidad-8.jpg/220px-Psarocolius_decumanus_-Trinidad-8.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cassican (plural cassicans)
- An American bird (Psarocolius decumanus, syn. Cassicus cristatus), allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest.
- Synonyms: crested oropendola, cornbird
- A piping crow.
- Corvus typicus of Indonesia and Australia.
- Cracticus tibicen (syn. Gymnorhina tibicen), Australian magpie.
- Synonym: piping crow-shrike
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “cassican”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “cassican”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cassican m (plural cassicans)
- butcherbird (in the genus Cracticus)