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Mavis   /mˈeɪvɪs/   Listen
Mavis

noun
1.
Common Old World thrush noted for its song.  Synonyms: song thrush, throstle, Turdus philomelos.





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"Mavis" Quotes from Famous Books



... back to her mother, who was never so ill that she did not like to hear her voice. She could not always bear it in the room, but outside she was never tired of it. So Bab went about the house singing like a mavis. But she never passed a servant, male or female, without ceasing her song to say a kind word; and her mother, who, now that she had got on a little, lay listening with her keenest of ears, knew by the checks and ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald


Words linked to "Mavis" :   thrush, genus Turdus, Turdus


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