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lettuce-birds

lettuce-birds is the plural of lettuce-bird.

Meaning of lettuce-bird

Noun

lettuce-bird (plural lettuce-birds)

  1. (US, dialectal) A goldfinch.
    • ‘And Len Rhodes said you looked when you danced for all the world “like a lettuce-bird a-flying.”’1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 112

Questions about lettuce-birds

What is lettuce-birds the plural of?
Lettuce-birds is the plural of lettuce-bird.

Words near lettuce-birds in the dictionary

  1. lettuce leaves
  2. lettuce opium
  3. lettuce sea slug
  4. lettuce sea slugs
  5. lettuce-bird
  6. lettuce-birds
  7. lettuceless
  8. lettucelike
  9. lettuces
  10. lettucey
  11. lettucy

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