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mute swan

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English

Syllables
mute swan
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of white plumaged swan, Cygnus olor, having a distinctive orange bill with a black tip, native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere as an ornamental waterbird.

Etymology

So called because it is not very vocal (though not entirely mute).

Inflected Forms

mute swans (plural)

Synonyms

cygnus olor

Questions

What does mute swan mean?
A species of white plumaged swan, Cygnus olor, having a distinctive orange bill with a black tip, native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere as an ornamental waterbird.
Where does mute swan come from?
So called because it is not very vocal (though not entirely mute).

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