'Hill myna' definitions:
Definition of 'hill myna'
From: WordNet
noun
Glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech [syn: hill myna, Indian grackle, grackle, Gracula religiosa]
Definition of 'Hill myna'
From: GCIDE
- Hill \Hill\, n. [OE. hil, hul, AS. hyll; akin to OD. hille, hil, L. collis, and prob. to E. haulm, holm, and column. Cf. 2d Holm.]
- 1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. [1913 Webster]
- Every mountain and hill shall be made low. --Is. xl. 4. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
- Hill ant (Zool.), a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests.
- Hill myna (Zool.), one of several species of birds of India, of the genus Gracula, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also hill mynah.] See Myna.
- Hill partridge (Zool.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies.
- Hill tit (Zool.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family Leiotrichid[ae]. Many are beautifully colored. [1913 Webster]