cenzontli

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A form of centzontle — A mockingbird.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nouncenzontli (plural cenzontlis)

plural cenzontlis

  1. alternativerareAlternative spelling of centzontle.

    Or shall the soft cenzontli hush its song

    1855, Alice Cary, Poems, page 373
    1 more example

    likening thee to some huge condor of the Cotopal peak making love to the singing cenzontli.

    1845, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Montezuma, the Serf, or the Revolt of the Mexitli, volume 2, page 18
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