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egg-birds

egg-birds is the plural of egg-bird.

Meaning of egg-bird

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).

Questions about egg-birds

What is egg-birds the plural of?
Egg-birds is the plural of egg-bird.

Words near egg-birds in the dictionary

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

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