English Explanatory Dictionary

riflebird

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of four species of birds of paradise in the genus Ptiloris.

Word forms

riflebird riflebirds

Etymology

From rifle + bird, from the resemblance of their black and green plumage to the uniform of early nineteenth-century British army riflemen.

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