American crow

noun

: crow sense 1c

Everyone knows the American crow, a large black bird that often roosts in enormous flocks during the winter. Its call is the simple and familiar, "caw, caw, caw."

—Scott Shalaway, Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette, 25 Mar. 2007

Word History

First Known Use

1805, in the meaning defined above

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