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blue jay

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blue jay
n.
A North American bird (Cyanocitta cristata) having a crested head, predominantly blue plumage, and a harsh, noisy cry.
blue jay
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a common North American jay, Cyanocitta cristata, having bright blue plumage with greyish-white underparts
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Noun1.blue jayblue jay - common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast
Cyanocitta cristata, jaybird
Cyanocitta, genus Cyanocitta - New World jays
New World jay - a North American jay


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For miles, and miles, and miles, these solitudes are unbroken by any sign of human life or trace of human footstep; nor is anything seen to move about them but the blue jay, whose colour is so bright, and yet so delicate, that it looks like a flying flower.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
Not even rats in the wall, for they were starved out, or rather were never baited in -- only squirrels on the roof and under the floor, a whip-poor-will on the ridge-pole, a blue jay screaming beneath the window, a hare or woodchuck under the house, a screech owl or a cat owl behind it, a flock of wild geese or a laughing loon on the pond, and a fox to bark in the night.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
The "rover bird" so-called, the coroneted crane, the red and blue jays, the mocking-bird, the flycatcher, disappeared among the foliage of the immense trees, and all nature revealed symptoms of some approaching catastrophe.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
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