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mother-birds

mother-birds is the plural of mother-bird.

Meaning of mother-bird

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

Questions about mother-birds

What is mother-birds the plural of?
Mother-birds is the plural of mother-bird.

Words near mother-birds in the dictionary

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

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