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lady-bird

lady-bird is the alternative form of ladybird.

Meaning of ladybird

Noun

ladybird (plural ladybirds)

  1. (Commonwealth) Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
    • During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird, making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ladybird.1914, Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 7, page 81

Forms of lady-bird

plurallady-birds

Questions about lady-bird

What is lady-bird the alternative form of?
Lady-bird is the alternative form of ladybird.

Words near lady-bird in the dictionary

  1. lady's smock
  2. lady's thimble
  3. lady's thumb
  4. lady's traces
  5. lady's woman
  6. lady-bird
  7. lady-birds
  8. lady-boner
  9. lady-boners
  10. lady-bug
  11. lady-bugs

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