Gǔshū lǐ de gǔ zhōu shì yì zhǒng duǎn wěi de niǎo.
The gǔzhōu in old texts is a small short-tailed pigeon-like bird.
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鸼 is never used alone in modern Chinese. It appears only in the bound classical bird name 鹘鸼 (gǔzhōu), an old name for a kind of turtledove. Dictionaries also record a less common reading zé for the same character.
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Archaic and zoological; found in classical texts and dictionaries only.
