king-hunter
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the kingfishers that primarily hunt on land rather than taking prey from the water.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "They belong to that division of the family termed king-hunters, living chiefly on insects and small land-molluscs, which they dart down upon and pick up from the ground, just as a kingfisher picks a fish out of the water. They are confined to a very limited area, comprising the Moluccas, New Guinea and Northern Australia."