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What is the noun for scarecrow?

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scarecrow
  1. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.
  2. (pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
  4. A person clad in rags and tatters.
  5. (Britain, dialect) A bird, the black tern.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “To give the feeling that someone is watching and guarding over your spooky home, make a dummy or scarecrow.”
scarecrows
  1. plural of scarecrow
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  3. Examples:
    1. “New pastures full of scarecrows and glistening barbed razor wire and crisscrossing pipelines pumping petrodollars into the pockets of imperium.”
      “More than 30 elaborate scarecrows are peering from hedgerows, fields and chimney pots, as part of the annual scarecrow competition.”
      “Watson explained that he saw the crows hanging over a vegetable garden that used to contain scarecrows.”
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