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bill bird

bill bird noun: a toucan.

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.”
    • Alan Tennant (2010), On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN: “Protected as Belize's national "bill bird," the keel-billed toucan occupies a safeguarded riparian habitat that also preserves the home of every howler monkey...

Forms of bill bird

pluralbill birds
alternative formbill-bird

Questions about bill bird

What does bill bird mean?
Bill bird means a toucan.
What part of speech is bill bird?
Bill bird is a noun.
What is the plural of bill bird?
The plural of bill bird is bill birds.

Words near bill bird in the dictionary

  1. bilkings
  2. bilks
  3. Bilkun
  4. bill
  5. bill and coo
  6. bill bird
  7. bill birds
  8. Bill Cosby sweater
  9. Bill Cosby sweaters
  10. bill discounter
  11. bill discounters

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