'Catbird' definitions:
Definition of 'catbird'
From: WordNet
noun
Any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females [syn: bowerbird, catbird]
noun
North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing [syn: catbird, grey catbird, gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis]
Definition of 'Catbird'
From: GCIDE
- Catbird \Cat"bird\, n. (Zool.) An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat. [1913 Webster]