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bowerbird

bowerbird is the alternative spelling of bower bird.

Meaning of bower bird

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.

Forms of bowerbird

pluralbowerbirds

Words formed from bowerbird

Questions about bowerbird

What is bowerbird the alternative spelling of?
Bowerbird is the alternative spelling of bower bird.

Words near bowerbird in the dictionary

  1. Bower-Barff process
  2. Bower-Barffed
  3. Bower-Barffing
  4. Bower-Barffs
  5. Bowerbank
  6. bowerbird
  7. bowerbirds
  8. Bowerchalke
  9. bowered
  10. boweries
  11. boweriest

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