“Corvine” (KOR-vine) – from the Latin for “raven” – means of or relating to crows.
Example (as used by Edmund Newton in the Los Angeles Times): “Many residents of cities along the Pomona and San Bernardino freeways say, yes, indeed, they’ve noticed an increase in their corvine neighbors.”
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