mĕrŭla | mĕrŭlus, i (noun F.m) : f. (post-class. collat. form , , m., Auct. Carm. Philom. 13)
* A blackbird, ousel, merle.
* Lit.: evolare merulas,Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42: ut merula, quia sola volat, quasi mera volans nominaretur,Quint. 1, 6, 38; cf. Plin. 10, 29, 42, § 80; 10, 30, 45, § 87; 10, 53, 74, § 147.
* Transf.
* A fish, the sea-carp: merulae virentes,Ov. Hal. 114; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149.
* A kind of hydraulic machine that produced a sound like the note of the blackbird, Vitr. 10, 12.

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