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bleeding-hearts

bleeding-hearts is the plural of bleeding-heart.

Meaning of bleeding-heart

Noun

bleeding-heart (plural bleeding-hearts)

  1. Any of several species of bird in the genus Gallicolumba of the pigeon family, native to the Philippines, characterised by a red patch on the plumage of the breast.
  2. A person who is overly sympathetic to the plight of the underprivileged or exploited.

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Questions about bleeding-hearts

What is bleeding-hearts the plural of?
Bleeding-hearts is the plural of bleeding-heart.

Words near bleeding-hearts in the dictionary

  1. bleeding white
  2. bleeding-edge
  3. bleeding-heart
  4. bleeding-heart monkey
  5. bleeding-heart monkeys
  6. bleeding-hearts
  7. bleedingly
  8. bleedings
  9. bleeds
  10. bleeds dry
  11. bleeds for

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bleeding-hearts (page history and authors); bleeding-heart (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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