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plumcoloured starling

plumcoloured starling is the alternative form of plum-coloured starling.

Meaning of plum-coloured starling

Noun

plum-coloured starling (plural plum-coloured starlings)

  1. (Commonwealth spelling) Synonym of violet-backed starling.
    • Plum-coloured starlings built in the paper tree and from the bougainvillaea we heard the six-noted whistling of the Paradise flycatcher.1970, June Kay, “Far Lamorna”, in The Thirteenth Moon, London: Hutchinson & Co, →ISBN, page 16

Forms of plumcoloured starling

pluralplumcoloured starlings

Questions about plumcoloured starling

What is plumcoloured starling the alternative form of?
Plumcoloured starling is the alternative form of plum-coloured starling.

Words near plumcoloured starling in the dictionary

  1. plumbylidenes
  2. plumcake
  3. plumcakes
  4. plumcolored
  5. plumcoloured
  6. plumcoloured starling
  7. plumcoloured starlings
  8. plumcot
  9. plumcots
  10. plumdamas
  11. plumdamases

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