Bul"bul (?), n. [Per.] Zool.

The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera.

[Written also buhlbuhl.]

 

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