Corvus and Raven

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Corvus noun - Type genus of the Corvidae: crows and ravens.

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Raven and corvus are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Raven" instead a noun "Corvus".

Raven noun - Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail.

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Corvus and raven are semantically related. You can use "Corvus" instead a noun "Raven".

Nearby Words: ravening, ravenous, ravenously, Ravenna

A Roman boarding device used since the First Punic War was called the corvus meaning "raven" or "crow".

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The FPS Hexen, published by Ravensoft, had an end-of-game boss called Korax — from corvus corax, the Latin name for the common raven.

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The story behind Children of Nova's album, The Complexity of Light, involves a character named Corbin (obviously taken from "corvus", Latin for "crow" or "raven", which also gives us "corbies") who has some kind of deep association with crows.

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