Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Philomela

Philomela , noun

[Latin philomela, Greek filomh`la, according to the legend, from Filomh`la Philomela (daughter of Pandion, king of Athens), who was changed into a nightingale.]

1.
The nightingale; philomel. — Shakespeare
2.
(Zoology) A genus of birds including the nightingales.