'Piping crow' definitions:
Definition of 'piping crow'
(from WordNet)
noun
Crow-sized black-and-white bird; a good mimic often caged [syn: piping crow, piping crow-shrike, Gymnorhina tibicen]
Definition of 'Piping crow'
From: GCIDE
- Piping \Pip"ing\ (p[imac]p"[i^]ng), a. [From Pipe, v.]
- 1. Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Emitting a high, shrill sound. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of boiling fluids. [1913 Webster]
- Piping crow, Piping crow shrike, Piping roller (Zool.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. Gymnorhina tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck.
- Piping frog (Zool.), a small American tree frog ({Hyla Pickeringii}) which utters a high, shrill note in early spring.
- Piping hot, boiling hot; hissing hot; very hot. [Colloq.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]