phoebe
noun
any of several small American flycatchers of the genus Sayornis, especially S. phoebe, of eastern North America.
phoebes
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pluralof phoebe.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Eastern phoebes are an early nesting species and may have traditionally had their first brood before competition from later-nesting house sparrows, he explained.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
“If bluebirds and eastern phoebes have an enemy, it is we humans, not the house sparrows we brought here.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
“Eastern phoebes have to regroup and find safer nesting sites,” Mulvihill said, “preferably forested settings near streams, where they breed naturally.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Eastern phoebes are in the flycatcher family and consume not just flies, but also wasps, grasshoppers and even ticks — great news to those of us who can’t walk in the woods without getting bitten.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
As long as pigpens endure, and that shall be as long as the human race endures, why should not the line of phoebes also endure?
From The Hills of Hingham by Dallas Lore Sharp
