crow n
   1 Local nickname for resident of a nearby community.
   P 53-66 Grand Bank shags, Fortune goats, Garnish crows. P 245-69 Heart's Delight 'bright buttons' / Heart's Content 'beaus', / Perlican 'cockies,' / Scilly Cove 'crows.'
   2 Comb crow blackbird: Newfoundland rusty blackbird (Euphagus carolinus nigrans) (1959 MCATEE 60).
   crow's bread, ~ food, ~ pork: variety of toad-stool; DEVIL'S CAP.
   P 47-66 Crow's pork—large mushroom not fit to eat. P 148-69 ~ like a big mushroom, the size of a saucer. It grows among trees, in wet marshes. 1971 NOSEWORTHY 189 Crowfood—inedible mushrooms.

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