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Definition of Chough
1. Noun. A European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage.
Definition of Chough
1. n. A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
Definition of Chough
1. Noun. Two species of bird of the genus ''Pyrrhocorax'' in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia. ¹
2. Noun. A monotypic bird genus in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chough
1. a crow-like bird [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chough
Literary usage of Chough
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1851)
"chough. RED-LEGGED CROW. CORNISH chough. CORNISH DAW. CORNWALL KAE. KILLIGREW.
MARKET- JEW CROW. CHAUK DAW. HERMIT CROW. RED- LEGGED JACKDAW. CLIFF DAW. ..."
2. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory by William Macgillivray (1837)
"Cornish chough. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 141. Of the adult male and female, ...
The chough when seen at a distance bears a great resemblance to the Rook, ..."
3. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1849)
"THE chough. Cornish chough. Red-legged Jackdaw * or Crow. ... Mr. Selby mentions
that the chough will not alight on the turf, if it can possibly avoid it, ..."
4. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs by Henry Leonard Meyer (1846)
"THE chough is an inhabitant of the mountainous parts of the south of Europe ...
During the summer in these countries, the chough frequents the highest rocks ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1911)
"The chough and crow to roost are gone, The owl sits on the tree, The hush'd wind
wails with feeble moan, Like infant charity. The wild fire dances on the ..."
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