BUNTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bunting mean? 

• BUNTING (noun)
  The noun BUNTING has 2 senses:

1. a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.

2. any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America

  Familiarity information: BUNTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUNTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bunting" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bunting" is a kind of...):

finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bunting"):

indigo bird; indigo bunting; indigo finch; Passerina cyanea (small deep blue North American bunting)

Emberiza hortulana; ortolan; ortolan bunting (brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy)

Emberiza schoeniclus; reed bunting (European bunting inhabiting marshy areas)

Emberiza citrinella; yellow bunting; yellowhammer (European bunting the male being bright yellow)

Emberiza aureola; yellow-breasted bunting (common in Russia and Siberia)

Plectrophenax nivalis; snow bunting; snowbird; snowflake (white Arctic bunting)

 Context examples 

From Orwell to the Dart there was no port which did not send forth its little fleet, gay with streamer and bunting, as for a joyous festival.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)