rainbird

[reyn-burd]

rain·bird

[reyn-burd]
noun
any of several birds, especially the black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus) and the yellow-billed cuckoo (C. americanus), that are said to call frequently before a rainstorm.

Origin:
1910–15; rain + bird
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Rainbird is always a great word to know.
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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rainbird (ˈreɪnˌbɜːd)
 
n
any of various birds, such as (in Britain) the green woodpecker, whose cry is supposed to portend rain

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