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Definition of Fig-bird
1. Noun. Greenish-yellow Australian oriole feeding chiefly on figs and other fruits.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fig-bird
Literary usage of Fig-bird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Fiddler, n. a New South Wales and Victorian name for a species rhina j fig-bird, n.
a bird-name. ..."
2. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"He makes an exception, however, in favour of the gold-streaked tiko pouli (fig-bird),
that, nourished upon ripe figs, falls to his crafty gun so often as it ..."
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