nightingale has definitions from the fields of zoology,medicine,work
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[ noun ] (zoology) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song

Used in print

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

`` Tomorrow will be a new experience - I have never before made_love to a nightingale .

A scant half_mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace , the air about them scented with stock , and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime_tree at the foot of the garden .

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 7882
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[ noun ] (medicine,work) English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)

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nurse

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