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egg-bird

egg-bird noun: the white-fronted tern (Sterna striata).

Noun

egg-bird (plural egg-birds)

  1. (dated) The white-fronted tern (Sterna striata).
    • Saw some Albatrosses and petrels, and in the evening an Egg bird or Tern which lighted on the ship was caught but differ’d from all any of us had seen before. It was about the size of the common Tern or sea swallow with the head, back and coverts of the wings finely variegated with black and white...1967 [1777], [William Anderson], “Appendix I: Anderson’s Journal”, in J. C. Beaglehole, editor, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery (Hakluyt Society Extra Series; 36)...
  2. (dated) The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) of the West Indies.
  3. (Bahamas, dated) The white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus).

Forms of egg-bird

pluralegg-birds

Questions about egg-bird

What does egg-bird mean?
Egg-bird means the white-fronted tern (Sterna striata).
What part of speech is egg-bird?
Egg-bird is a noun.
What is the plural of egg-bird?
The plural of egg-bird is egg-birds.

Words near egg-bird in the dictionary

  1. egg whites
  2. egg wrack
  3. egg wracks
  4. egg yolk
  5. egg yolks
  6. egg-bird
  7. egg-birds
  8. egg-bound
  9. egg-capsule
  10. egg-capsules
  11. egg-cellent

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