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bill-bird

bill-bird is the alternative form of bill bird.

Meaning of bill bird

Noun

bill bird (plural bill birds)

  1. (obsolete) A toucan.
    • William Dampier (1729), chapter II, in A Collection Of Voyages: Volume III, London: James and John Knapton, page 402: “The Greater Bill-bird or Toucan. It's Breast is bright Gold, the Belly and Thighs red, Tail black tipt with red.”

Forms of bill-bird

pluralbill-birds

Questions about bill-bird

What is bill-bird the alternative form of?
Bill-bird is the alternative form of bill bird.

Words near bill-bird in the dictionary

  1. bill up
  2. Bill Wigglestick
  3. Bill Williams River
  4. bill-beetle
  5. bill-beetles
  6. bill-bird
  7. bill-birds
  8. bill-discounter
  9. bill-discounters
  10. bill-hook
  11. bill-hooks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bill-bird (page history and authors); bill bird (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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