Definitions for rainbirds

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rainbirds rain·bird

Spelling: [reyn-burd]

IPA: /ˈreɪnˌbɜrd/

Rainbirds is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in rainbirds (abdiinrrs).

Definitions for rainbirds

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 rainbirds

First recorded in 1910-15; rain + bird

Examples for rainbirds

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