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bower bird

bower bird noun: any bird of the Australasian family Ptilonorhynchidae noted for building display structures (bowers) and decorating them with bright objects such as shells, glass, flowers, etc.

bower bird: any bird of the Australasian family Ptilonorhynchidae noted for building display structures...
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Noun

bower bird (plural bower birds)

  1. Any bird of the Australasian family Ptilonorhynchidae noted for building display structures (bowers) and decorating them with bright objects such as shells, glass, flowers, etc.
  2. (figuratively) A person who collects objects for display.

bower bird meaning in Tamil

bower bird in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

Forms of bower bird

pluralbower birds
alternative formbowerbird

Origin of bower bird

From bower + bird.

Questions about bower bird

What does bower bird mean?
Bower bird means any bird of the Australasian family Ptilonorhynchidae noted for building display structures (bowers) and decorating them with bright objects such as shells, glass, flowers, etc.
What is bower bird in Tamil?
Bower bird in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Bower bird meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bower bird?
Bower bird is a noun.
What is the plural of bower bird?
The plural of bower bird is bower birds.

Words near bower bird in the dictionary

  1. Bowenwork
  2. bower
  3. bower anchor
  4. bower anchors
  5. Bower Ashton
  6. bower bird
  7. bower birds
  8. bower vine
  9. bower vines
  10. Bower-Barff
  11. Bower-Barff process

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bower bird (page history and authors); bower bird (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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