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willie wagtail

willie wagtail noun: an Australian bird, Rhipidura leucophrys.

willie wagtail: an Australian bird, Rhipidura leucophrys
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Noun (1)

willie wagtail (plural willie wagtails)

  1. An Australian bird, Rhipidura leucophrys.
    • The birds were nowhere to be seen or heard, not even a singing willy-wagtail lightly flittering from rock to rock […].2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 412

Noun (2) capitalized: Willie Wagtail

Willie Wagtail (plural Willie Wagtails)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of willie wagtail.

Noun (3) capitalized: Willie wagtail

Willie wagtail (plural Willie wagtails)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of willie wagtail.

Forms of willie wagtail

pluralwillie wagtails
alternative formWillie Wag-tail
alternative formwillie wag-tail
alternative formWillie wagtail
alternative formWillie Wagtail
alternative formwillie-wag-tail
alternative formWilly Wag Tail
alternative formWilly wag-tail
alternative formWilly Wag-tail
alternative formwilly wagtail
alternative formWilly Wagtail
alternative formwilly-wag-tail
alternative formWilly-wag-tail
alternative formWilly-Wagtail
alternative formwilly-wagtail
alternative formWillywagtail
alternative formwillywagtail
pluralWillie Wagtails
pluralWillie wagtails

Questions about willie wagtail

What does willie wagtail mean?
Willie wagtail means an Australian bird, Rhipidura leucophrys.
What part of speech is willie wagtail?
Willie wagtail is a noun.
What is the plural of willie wagtail?
The plural of willie wagtail is willie wagtails.

Words near willie wagtail in the dictionary

  1. willie
  2. Willie Pete
  3. Willie Peter
  4. willie wag-tail
  5. willie wag-tails
  6. willie wagtail
  7. willie wagtails
  8. willie warmer
  9. Willie Wigglestick
  10. willie-wag-tail
  11. willie-wag-tails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: willie wagtail (page history and authors); Willie Wagtail (page history and authors); Willie wagtail (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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