Mother-bird

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female parent of a chick or chicks.

    "From the branch of a tree overhead she heard a watchful mother-bird's warning call, and the twitter of the disturbed nestlings."

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"From the branch of a tree overhead she heard a watchful mother-bird's warning call, and the twitter of the disturbed nestlings."

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