Riflebird
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of four species of birds of paradise in the genus Ptiloris.
- 2 velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail wordnet
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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