Young+bird

  • 11bird — [bʉrd] n. [ME bird, brid < OE bridd, bird, orig., young bird] 1. any of a class (Aves) of warmblooded, two legged, egg laying vertebrates with feathers and wings 2. a small game bird: distinguished from WATERFOWL 3. a clay pigeon in… …

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  • 12bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …

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  • 13Bird migration — A flock of Barnacle Geese during autumn migration …

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  • 14bird — {{11}}bird (n.1) O.E. bird, rare collateral form of bridd, originally young bird, nestling (the usual O.E. for bird being fugol), of uncertain origin with no cognates in any other Germanic language. The suggestion that it is related by umlaut to… …

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  • 15bird — [OE] Bird is something of a mystery word. It was not the ordinary Old English word for ‘feathered flying animal’; that was fowl. In Old English, bird meant specifically ‘young bird, nestling’. It did not begin to replace fowl as the general term… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 16bird — [OE] Bird is something of a mystery word. It was not the ordinary Old English word for ‘feathered flying animal’; that was fowl. In Old English, bird meant specifically ‘young bird, nestling’. It did not begin to replace fowl as the general term… …

    Word origins

  • 17bird — [[t]bɜrd[/t]] n. 1) any warm blooded, egg laying vertebrate of the class Aves, having feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, and a beak 2) a fowl or game bird 3) spo clay pigeon 4) spo a shuttlecock 5) sts Slang. a person, esp. one… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 18bird — I. /bɜd / (say berd) noun 1. any of the Aves, a class of warm blooded vertebrates having a body more or less completely covered with feathers, and the forelimbs so modified as to form wings by means of which most species fly. 2. Sport a. a game… …

  • 19bird — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Any warm blooded vertebrate with feathers and wings] Syn. fowl, feathered creature, Avis (Latin), songbird, passerine bird, oscine bird, bird of prey, raptor, shorebird, seabird, wader, wading bird, waterfowl, ratite,… …

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  • 20Bird (film) — Infobox Film name = Bird caption = film poster by Bill Gold director = Clint Eastwood producer = Clint Eastwood David Valdes writer = Joel Oliansky narrator = starring = Forest Whitaker Diane Venora Michael Zelniker Sam Wright Keith David music …

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