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Webster 1913 Edition
Cassican
Cas′si-can
,Noun.
[NL.
cassicus
helmeted, fr. L. cassis
a belmet.] (Zool.)
An American bird of the genus
Cassicus
, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.