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rifle bird
or rifle·bird
noun
- any of several birds of paradise of Australia, having a long bill, dark plumage, and elaborate courtship displays.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rifle bird1
First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences
Then Lane found a few of the beautiful metallic rifle bird, all glossy purply green.
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Being wholly new, this bird might have been named the Grenadier, as a companion to the Rifle-bird.
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Then there is that beautiful purply black kind of crow—the rifle bird they call it.
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The rifle bird; a near relative, I believe, to the birds of paradise.
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He raised his gun to shoot the rifle bird, but lowered it again.
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