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TROPICBIRD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tropicbird mean?
• TROPICBIRD (noun)
The noun TROPICBIRD has 1 sense:
1. mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land
Familiarity information: TROPICBIRD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
boatswain bird; tropic bird; tropicbird
Hypernyms ("tropicbird" is a kind of...):
pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)
Holonyms ("tropicbird" is a member of...):
genus Phaethon; Phaethon (type genus of the Phaethontidae)
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