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shorb

shorb noun: a shorebird.

Noun

shorb (plural shorbs)

  1. (informal) A shorebird.
    • The first of the rare species of shorb for AZ I started finding this fall was the Semipalmated Sandpiper, an overlooked and overeported species in Maricopa County.2016 September 10, Caleb Strand, “Fall Madness: Shorebirding And More!!!”, in Birding With Caleb (blog), archived from the original on 23 Nov 2023
    • With it was a much larger curlew species: Long-billed Curlew (the largest regularly occurring shorb in the ABA)2019 December 20, Jared Conaway, “On The Wesside Feelin Like a Great”, in AK-AZ Birder (blog), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2024

Proper noun capitalized: Shorb

Shorb (plural Shorbs)

  1. A surname.

Forms of shorb

Noun
pluralshorbs
Proper noun
pluralShorbs

Origin of shorb

Clipping of shorebird.

Questions about shorb

What does shorb mean?
Shorb means a shorebird.
What part of speech is shorb?
Shorb can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of shorb?
The plural of shorb is shorbs.

Words near shorb in the dictionary

  1. Shor's algorithm
  2. SHORAD
  3. shorage
  4. SHORAN
  5. Shoranur
  6. shorb
  7. shorba
  8. shorbs
  9. shordies
  10. shordy
  11. shore

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