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boatswain-birds

boatswain-birds is the plural of boatswain-bird.

Meaning of boatswain-bird

Noun

boatswain-bird (plural boatswain-birds)

  1. A tropical bird, Phaethon aethereus, often found far from land, whose cry resembles the whistle of a boatswain's pipe.

Questions about boatswain-birds

What is boatswain-birds the plural of?
Boatswain-birds is the plural of boatswain-bird.

Words near boatswain-birds in the dictionary

  1. boatswain's chairs
  2. boatswain's mate
  3. boatswain's pipe
  4. boatswain's pipes
  5. boatswain-bird
  6. boatswain-birds
  7. Boatswainbird Island
  8. boatswains
  9. boatswen
  10. boatswoman
  11. boatswomen

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