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birdseye

birdseye 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 birdseye

pluralbirdseyes

Questions about birdseye

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

Words near birdseye in the dictionary

  1. birdseeds
  2. Birdsell
  3. birdseller
  4. birdsellers
  5. Birdsells
  6. birdseye
  7. birdseyes
  8. birdsfoot
  9. birdsfoot trefoil
  10. birdsfoot trefoils
  11. birdsfoot violet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birdseye (page history and authors); bird's-eye (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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