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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 black·bird /ˈblækˌbɚ/
 山鳥類

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Black·bird n. Zool. In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelæus phœniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Black·bird, n.
 1. Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian. [Cant, pejorative]
 2.  A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called also Kanaka. [Australia, pejorative]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 blackbird
      n 1: any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or
           predominantly black [syn: New World blackbird]
      2: common black European thrush [syn: merl, merle, ouzel,
          ousel, European blackbird, Turdus merula]