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birdlife

noun

Etymology

From bird + life.

  1. derived from *leyp-✻ — “to stick, glue”
  2. inherited from *lībą✻ — “life, body”
  3. inherited from *līb✻
  4. inherited from līf
  5. inherited from lyf
  6. compounded as birdlife — “bird + life”

Definitions

  1. Birds collectively

    Birds collectively; avifauna.

    • Introduction to California Birdlife describes the representative birds in California's seven major bioregions: ocean, seashore, coastal ranges, Central Valley, mountains and foothills, Great Basin, and deserts.
    • The prolific bird life around the Inlet was thinning out but grey rosellas and zebras and painted finches made the bush merry[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for birdlife. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA