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mother-bird

mother-bird noun: a female parent of a chick or chicks.

Noun

mother-bird (plural mother-birds)

  1. A female parent of a chick or chicks.
    • From the branch of a tree overhead she heard a watchful mother-bird's warning call, and the twitter of the disturbed nestlings.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 5

Forms of mother-bird

pluralmother-birds

Questions about mother-bird

What does mother-bird mean?
Mother-bird means a female parent of a chick or chicks.
What part of speech is mother-bird?
Mother-bird is a noun.
What is the plural of mother-bird?
The plural of mother-bird is mother-birds.

Words near mother-bird in the dictionary

  1. mother's little helpers
  2. mother's mark
  3. mother's milk
  4. Mother's Night
  5. mother's ruin
  6. mother-bird
  7. mother-birds
  8. mother-fucker
  9. mother-fuckers
  10. mother-hen
  11. mother-henned

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