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sora

nounattested in dialogue

A rail (Porzana carolina) bird of North, Central, and northern South America.

noun

  1. 1

    A rail (Porzana carolina) bird of North, Central, and northern South America.

Etymology

Early 19th-century sources observe that this term was in use in Virginia; presumably it is from an Indigenous American language of that area.

Forms

plural
soras
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