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doctor birds

doctor birds is the plural of doctor bird.

Meaning of doctor bird

Noun

doctor bird (plural doctor birds)

  1. Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird)
    • He listened to the zip of doctor birds at the window and the peach trees in the wind.2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 125

Questions about doctor birds

What is doctor birds the plural of?
Doctor birds is the plural of doctor bird.

Words near doctor birds in the dictionary

  1. Docters
  2. doctiloquent
  3. doctor
  4. Doctor Atkins
  5. doctor bird
  6. doctor birds
  7. doctor blade
  8. doctor blades
  9. Doctor Feelgood
  10. Doctor Frankenstein
  11. Doctor Frankensteins

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