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alpine choughs

alpine choughs is the plural of alpine chough.

Meaning of alpine chough

Noun

alpine chough (plural alpine choughs)

  1. A species of bird in the crow family (Corvidae) (Pyrrhocorax graculus), that breeds locally in the highest mountains of southern Europe, the Alps, across central Asia and India.
    • In a sense these sections form refrains to the two couplets, in which two types of material are used: birdsong, consisting of the calls and cries of the alpine chough and the raven, and passages representing the flight of the alpine chough and the flight of the golden eagle.1989, Robert Sherlaw Johnson, Messiaen, page 138

Noun (1) capitalized: Alpine Choughs

Alpine Choughs

  1. (plural) plural of Alpine Chough

Noun (2) capitalized: Alpine choughs

Alpine choughs

  1. (plural) plural of Alpine chough

Questions about alpine choughs

What is alpine choughs the plural of?
Alpine choughs is the plural of alpine chough.
What part of speech is alpine choughs?
Alpine choughs is a noun.

Words near alpine choughs in the dictionary

  1. alpine butterfly bends
  2. alpine butterfly knot
  3. alpine butterfly knots
  4. alpine chamois
  5. alpine chough
  6. alpine choughs
  7. alpine club moss
  8. alpine club mosses
  9. alpine club-moss
  10. alpine club-mosses
  11. alpine clubmoss

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