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  1. Lyre bird

    any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail

Etymology and Origins

  1. Lyre Bird

    So called from the resemblance of the sixteen feathers of its tail when spread erect to a lyre.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lyre bird in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lyre bird in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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    large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
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