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FLYING BIRD

Pronunciation (US):

• FLYING BIRD (noun)
The noun FLYING BIRD has 1 sense:

1. birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles

Familiarity information: FLYING BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

• FLYING BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

carinate; carinate bird; flying bird

Hypernyms ("flying bird" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Meronyms (parts of "flying bird"):

keel (the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly)

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