bulbul

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bul=bul

CIDE DICTIONARY

bulbul, n. [Per.].

 The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bulbul, n.
1 any songbird of the family Pycnonotidae, of dull plumage with contrasting bright patches.
2 a singer or poet.

Etymology

Pers. f. Arab., of imit. orig.

ROGET THESAURUS

bulbul

Musician

N musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, band, orchestral waits, vocalist, melodist, singer, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, choir, quire, chorister, chorus, chorus singer, liedertafel, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization, playing, musical, adagio, andante.