avi-

1. a combining form meaning “bird,” used in the formation of compound words.

   aviculture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of avi-¹

< Latin, combining form of avis

Example Sentences

It began in 2005, when Munger was 81 years old and a 17-year-old neighbor, Avi Mayer, knocked on the door of Munger’s longtime home in Los Angeles’s Hancock Park neighborhood.

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But there was a message here, too, for Israel's regional military chief - scrawled in Hebrew on the mosque's exterior wall: "We're not afraid of you, Avi Bluth."

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The head of the army's central command, Maj Gen Avi Bluth - the man addressed in the graffiti on Hamida Mosque - said violent acts by what he called "anarchist fringe youth" were "unacceptable and extremely serious" and must be dealt with firmly.

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Gen. Avi Bluth, who heads the Israeli military command that oversees the West Bank, said the attacks by what he called “anarchist fringe youth” were unacceptable and extremely serious.

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Graffiti sprayed outside the mosque on Thursday warned: “We are not afraid of Avi Bluth.”

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