Definitions for bee-eater

bee-eater bee-eat·er

Spelling: [bee-ee-ter]
IPA: /ˈbiˌi tər/

Bee-Eater is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in bee-eater (-abeeeert).

Definitions for bee-eater

noun

  1. any of several colorful birds of the family Meropidae, of the Old World tropics, that feed on bees and other insects.

Origin of bee-eater

First recorded in 1660-70

Examples for bee-eater

The bee-eater utilises the bill as pickaxe and the feet as ejectors.

Beewolf—that is, bee-eater—is the German name for the woodpecker.

A toad is discovered near the hives, and forthwith he is executed as a bee-eater.

The Australian bee-eater, a bird of attractive plumage, is found all over the northern islets of the Barrier Reef.

The latter in its endeavour to escape soars into the air, and the bee-eater seizing it becomes the prey of the aërial fisherman.

The sand-grouse (Pterocles arenarius) is occasionally found, as also are the eagle and the bee-eater.

Watch a bee-eater feeding and you will see it take twenty or thirty insects in less than an hour.

Of all feathered fowl, however, none are more brilliant in colour than the bee-eater and the golden oriol.

The note of both kinds of bee-eater is a soft but cheery whistle.

More likely they were bee-eater's, or may have been snake's or lizard's.

Word Value for bee-eater
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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