redbird

American  

[red-burd] / ˈrɛdˌbɜrd /

noun

1. any of various birds having red plumage, especially the northern cardinal.

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Etymology

Origin of redbird

First recorded in 1660–70; red ¹ + bird

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Example Sentences

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redbird

Watching with delight in spring as a male redbird presents his mate with an edible demonstration of his “fitness as a partner,” she comments, “In the avian world, a grub is an engagement ring.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

I wanted to roll it in my palm like the head of a small redbird until it sang to me.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2016

Among our acquaintances was a lame redbird who at one time had been trapped and made a prisoner, confined behind the bars of a wire cell for many weeks and months.

From Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird by Virginia Sharpe Patterson

In the woods," said Mary, thoughtfully, "the dew drips tinkling from the leaves; Jeffers, the redbird, was never born, but hatched.

From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards

The redbird excepted, he is the sole bit of lively color in our winter landscape.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

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