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bird's eye

bird's eye is the alternative form of bird's-eye.

Meaning of bird's-eye

Adjective

bird's-eye (not comparable)

  1. Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird.
  2. As if viewed from an altitude; panoramic.
    • There is also one of the woodblocks used to print Jacopo de’ Barbari’s revolutionary bird’s-eye panorama of Venice and the lagoon, from 1500.2016 May 5, Roderick Conway Morris, “In Venice, the Power of the Press on Display”, in The New York Times

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Forms of bird's eye

comparativemore bird's eye
superlativemost bird's eye

Questions about bird's eye

What is bird's eye the alternative form of?
Bird's eye is the alternative form of bird's-eye.

Words near bird's eye in the dictionary

  1. bird watcher
  2. bird watchers
  3. bird watching
  4. Bird Whistle
  5. bird's beak
  6. bird's eye
  7. bird's eye chili
  8. bird's eye chilis
  9. Bird's Head
  10. bird's mouth
  11. bird's nest

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