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stormbird

stormbird is the alternative form of storm-bird.

Meaning of storm-bird

Noun

storm-bird (plural storm-birds)

  1. The storm petrel.
  2. (Australia) The channel-billed cuckoo.
    • That noise, that awful clamour of uncouthness inexpressible, is the love-call of the storm bird!1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 205

Forms of stormbird

pluralstormbirds

Questions about stormbird

What is stormbird the alternative form of?
Stormbird is the alternative form of storm-bird.

Words near stormbird in the dictionary

  1. storm-voice
  2. storm-voices
  3. storm-wracked
  4. stormable
  5. Stormare
  6. stormbird
  7. stormbirds
  8. stormbound
  9. stormbringer
  10. Stormbrook
  11. stormchaser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stormbird (page history and authors); storm-bird (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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