The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Yet prior to the new study, only humans and thrush nightingales have been observed singing songs that have a rhythmical structure—that is, containing features such as a “categorical rhythm.”
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2021
Knepp boasts the largest population in Britain of the Purple Emperor butterfly; nightingales, after years of decline, are nesting there in rising numbers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2019
Muntjac deer have eaten the undergrowth where nightingales once nested in the forests near my home, and now those birds have gone.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2017
As the sun goes down on Białowieża, a night chorus of frogs, nightingales and warblers pipes up under its clear and constellated skies.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2016
He told everyone about the songs of canaries, the diet of kestrels, and the extraordinary migration patterns of nightingales.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
