Usually means: Brood parasite, lays eggs externally.
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  1. cowbird: Merriam-Webster
  2. cowbird: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cowbird: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cowbird: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cowbird: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cowbird, cowbird: Wordnik
  7. cowbird: Wiktionary
  8. cowbird: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cowbird: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cowbird: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cowbird, cowbird: Dictionary.com
  12. Cowbird: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cowbird: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cowbird: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cowbird: Rhymezone
  16. Cowbird: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cowbird: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cowbird: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cowbird: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cowbird: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cowbird)

▸ noun:  Any bird of the genus Molothrus. The cowbirds are brood parasites.

Similar:
shiny cowbird, brood parasitism, cornbird, coucal, cockbird, coerebid, cuckow, cuckoo, hawk-cuckoo, cisticolid, more...

Opposite:
non-cowbird, host bird, non-parasitic bird

Phrases:
shiny cowbird, Brown-headed cowbird, brown headed cowbird, more...

Adjectives:
headed, young, female, shiny, parasitic, male, bronzed, winged, american, north, brownheaded

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Similar:
shiny cowbird, brood parasitism, cornbird, coucal, cockbird, coerebid, cuckow, cuckoo, hawk-cuckoo, cisticolid, more...

Opposite:
non-cowbird, host bird, non-parasitic bird

Phrases:
shiny cowbird, Brown-headed cowbird, brown headed cowbird, more...

Adjectives:
headed, young, female, shiny, parasitic, male, bronzed, winged, american, north, brownheaded



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