thunderbird

[thuhn-der-burd]

thun·der·bird

[thuhn-der-burd]
noun
(in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.

Origin:
1820–30; thunder + bird
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Thunderbird is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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thunderbird (ˈθʌndəˌbɜːd)
 
n
a legendary bird that produces thunder, lightning, and rain according to the folk belief of several North American Indian peoples

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Thunderbird definition

messaging, open source
A complete free, open-source e-mail client from the Mozilla Foundation and therefore a true code descendent of the e-mail code in Netscape Navigator. The first non-beta release was in late 2004. The Firefox web browser is from the same source.
Thunderbird Home (http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird).
(2005-01-26)

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