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bellbird

bellbird noun: any of various birds with far-carrying bell-like calls, including the New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura), the crested bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis) and bell miner (Manorina melanophrys) of Australia, and the neotropical bellbirds (Procnias spp.) of the Americas.

bellbird: any of various birds with far-carrying bell-like calls, including the New Zealand bellbird...
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Noun

bellbird (plural bellbirds)

  1. Any of various birds with far-carrying bell-like calls, including the New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura), the crested bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis) and bell miner (Manorina melanophrys) of Australia, and the neotropical bellbirds (Procnias spp.) of the Americas.

Proper noun capitalized: Bellbird

Bellbird

  1. A suburb of Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.

bellbird meaning in Tamil

bellbird in Tamil

மணிக்குரலி மணிப்புள்

Forms of bellbird

pluralbellbirds

Origin of bellbird

From bell + bird.

Words formed from bellbird

Phrases with bellbird

Questions about bellbird

What does bellbird mean?
Bellbird means any of various birds with far-carrying bell-like calls, including the New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura), the crested bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis) and bell miner (Manorina melanophrys) of Australia, and the neotropical bellbirds (Procnias spp.) of the Americas.
What is bellbird in Tamil?
Bellbird in Tamil is மணிக்குரலி மணிப்புள். See Bellbird meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bellbird?
Bellbird can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bellbird?
The plural of bellbird is bellbirds.

Words near bellbird in the dictionary

  1. Bellavary
  2. Bellavia
  3. Bellavias
  4. bellbergite
  5. bellbind
  6. bellbird
  7. Bellbird Creek
  8. Bellbird Heights
  9. bellbirds
  10. bellbottom
  11. bellbottomed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bellbird (page history and authors); Bellbird (page history and authors); bellbird (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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