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mynah

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My father had some sort of a mynah bird in a classroom where he taught middle school science.

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Quick take

Alternative spelling of myna. [One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.]

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noun

Alternative spelling of myna. [One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mynah.

noun

Alternative spelling of myna. [One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.]

See also: myna, myna-bird, mina, minah, mynah-bird

Example sentences

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My father had some sort of a mynah bird in a classroom where he taught middle school science.

2

Someone later gave the guy a mynah bird that had a 30 or so word vocabulary.

3

There's also the Indian Mynah doing much the same thing but less aggressively.

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As a teen I worked in a pet shop and a Mynah - the shop pet - had learned to imitate a squeaky hamster wheel.

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Lots of others birds will try to shove them off somewhere else and they’ll either wander away off their own accord, or they’ll completely ignore the other birds (probably a mynah) and just keep eating.

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It was pretty funny to walk past that house on a nice day and hear 3 cigarette coughs and hearing the mynah say happy halloween in a sort-of witch voice no matter the time of the year.

Quote examples

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You know: 'Here and now, boys.' 'Attention.' " She gave an imitation of the mynah birds.

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I use a Mac menubar app called "Mindful Mynah".

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How do you use mynah in a sentence?

My father had some sort of a mynah bird in a classroom where he taught middle school science.

What does mynah mean?

Alternative spelling of myna. [One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.]

What part of speech is mynah?

mynah is commonly used as noun.