bulbul
- n nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry
- Later she heard a braying donkey called a "bulbul," learned that Persians also applied the term to any noisy animal.
- Mere men agreed that such a display of patience in quick-tempered Ceylon was as rare as a yellow-eared bulbulor, for that matter, a lady Prime Minister.
- At the home of Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society, they thought they had found what they wanted: an East Indian bulbul named Greenie, who had been .