Definitions for rainbird

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rainbird rain·bird

Spelling: [reyn-burd]

IPA: /ˈreɪnˌbɜrd/

Rainbird is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in rainbird (abdiinrr).

Definitions for rainbird

noun

1. 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 of rainbird

First recorded in 1910-15; rain + bird

Examples for rainbird

rainbird is a local name for the green woodpecker, but as an East-Anglian name it is most likely an imitative form of Fr.