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doctorbird

doctorbird is the alternative form 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

Forms of doctorbird

pluraldoctorbirds

Questions about doctorbird

What is doctorbird the alternative form of?
Doctorbird is the alternative form of doctor bird.

Words near doctorbird in the dictionary

  1. doctorandus
  2. doctorate
  3. doctorated
  4. doctorates
  5. doctorating
  6. doctorbird
  7. doctorbirds
  8. doctorbush
  9. doctorbushes
  10. doctorcraft
  11. doctordom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doctorbird (page history and authors); doctor 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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