Definitions for sunbird

sunbird sun·bird

Spelling: [suhn-burd]
IPA: /ˈsʌnˌbɜrd/

Sunbird is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in sunbird (bdinrsu).

Definitions for sunbird

noun

  1. any of various small, brilliantly colored Old World birds of the family Nectariniidae.

Origin of sunbird

First recorded in 1790-1800; sun + bird

Examples for sunbird

This sunbird was common around flowers at Kalabakan and Brantian Estate.

sunbird, fly away, fly to my ancestress' house; bring me apples and pears; come back soon.

Moreover, a tiny creature such as a sunbird is almost as light as the proverbial feather.

Great is the variety of building material used by the sunbird.

The nest of the sunbird is one of the most wonderful pieces of architecture in the world, and it is the work of the hen alone.

Loten's sunbird (A. lotenia) ventures some 2500 feet higher, and has been seen in the vicinity of Coonoor.

Scimitar-babblers are so called because of the long, slender, compressed beak, which is curved downwards like that of a sunbird.

The humming-bird is exclusively American: the nearest form in the Old World is the nectarinia, or sunbird.

The immunity of the sunbird is due chiefly to the inaccessibility of the nest.

Hence it might seem that, in the case of the sunbird, the above-mentioned explanation of the sexual dimorphism is the true one.

Word Value for sunbird
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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