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Definition of Snowbird

1. Noun. Medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter.

2. Noun. White Arctic bunting.

3. Noun. Small North American finch seen chiefly in winter.

Definition of Snowbird

1. n. An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, or Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.

Definition of Snowbird

1. Noun. A bird seen primarily in the winter time. ¹

2. Noun. A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) A cocaine user. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Snowbird

1. a small bird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Snowbird

1. An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, or Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. Hyemalis in the Eastern United States; called also blue snowbird. Synonym: snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight. (11 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowbird

snowbank snowbanks snowbase snowbases snowbear snowbears snowbell snowbells snowbelt snowbelts

snowberries snowberry snowbillies snowbilly snowbird (current term) snowbirding snowbirds snowblade snowblader snowbladers

snowblading snowblind snowblindness snowblink snowblinks snowblower snowblowers snowboard snowboard cross

Literary usage of Snowbird

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee by George Amos Dorsey (1904)
"THE BOY AND THE snowbird.199 An orphan boy is enticed by snowbirds to the abode ... In shooting the snowbirds the boy came to one snowbird, shot at it, and, ..."

2. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee by George Amos Dorsey (1904)
"THE BOY AND THE snowbird.199 An orphan boy is enticed by snowbirds to the abode ... In shooting the snowbirds the boy came to one snowbird, shot at it, and, ..."

3. Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society by American Folklore Society (1904)
"THE BOY AND THE snowbird.169 An orphan boy is enticed by snowbirds to the abode ... In shooting the snowbirds the boy came to one snowbird, shot at it, and, ..."

4. The Fourth Reader of the School and Family Series by Marcius Willson (1863)
"THE well-known snowbird is one of our visitants from the frozen regions of the north, ... The following lines to the snowbird contain both poetic and moral ..."

5. A West-Pointer in the Land of the Mikado by Laura De Lany Garst (1913)
"It was very nice and makes me as happy as a—snowbird. A snowbird seems happier to me than a crow, because a crow is a mean sort of a bird, a kind of a tease ..."

6. Good English, Oral and Written by William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch (1917)
"LESSON 62 — LITERATURE THE snowbird When all the ground with snow is white, The merry snowbird comes, And hops about with great delight To find the ..."

7. Good English, Oral and Written by William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch, George Linnaeus Marsh (1920)
"LESSON 62 — LITERATURE THE snowbird When all the ground with snow is white, The merry snowbird comes, And hops about with great delight To find the ..."

8. The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children by Nora Archibald Smith (1903)
"r The snowbird Unknown. In the rosy light trills the gay swallow, The thrush, in the roses below; The meadow-lark sings in the meadow, But the snowbird ..."

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