Associations to the word «Luscinia»

Wiktionary

LUSCINIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Muscicapidae.
LUSCINIA LUSCINIA, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Muscicapidae   — the thrush nightingale, native to much of central and eastern Europe and western Asia, overwintering in Africa.
LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Muscicapidae   — the common nightingale.

Dictionary definition

LUSCINIA, noun. Nightingales.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats