[
UK
/bˈɜːd/
]
[ US /ˈbɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɝd/ ]
NOUN
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
- informal terms for a (young) woman
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
- the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
VERB
- watch and study birds in their natural habitat
How To Use bird In A Sentence
- The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
- The popular beauty spot is home to a variety of wildlife including birds and types of bats.
- In 100 days we saw two pods of dolphins, a pod of blue whales and a few marine birds. Times, Sunday Times
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- The bolide probably prolonged and intensified the change, and may have weighed heavily in favor of mammals or birds and against non - avian dinosaurs.
- We also saw our first pelagic bird, the natty Northern Gannet.
- The visual system of most bird species, including all passerine birds tested to date, is sensitive to UV wavelengths.
- Competition between siblings for resources is widespread in the broods of altricial birds.
- I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
- Though the population is still fragile, today as many as 1,000 birds overwinter in the state.