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belted kingfisher

belted kingfisher noun: megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher.

belted kingfisher: megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher
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Noun

belted kingfisher (plural belted kingfishers)

  1. Megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher.
    • The jaunty wood-duck smiled and bowed;
      The belted kingfisher laughed aloud,1883, Maurice Thompson, “The Death of the White Heron”, in Songs of Fair Weather
    • It is called a belted kingfisher because of the blue-gray band across the breast of the male, with an additional reddish band below the blue-gray one on females.1999, George Wilby Scotter, Edgar T. Jones, Tom J. Ulrich, Birds of the Canadian Rockies, Fifth House Publishers, page 82

Forms of belted kingfisher

pluralbelted kingfishers

Questions about belted kingfisher

What does belted kingfisher mean?
Belted kingfisher means megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher.
What part of speech is belted kingfisher?
Belted kingfisher is a noun.
What is the plural of belted kingfisher?
The plural of belted kingfisher is belted kingfishers.

Words near belted kingfisher in the dictionary

  1. belted cable
  2. belted down
  3. belted earl
  4. belted earls
  5. Belted Galloway
  6. belted kingfisher
  7. belted kingfishers
  8. belted knight
  9. belted knights
  10. belted l
  11. belted magnum

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