Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

birdeater

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bird-eater
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Anything which eats birds.

noun

Any of certain large tarantulas which occasionally (though very rarely) eat hummingbirds, especially of the genera Avicularia and Theraphosa, the latter of which contains the Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi).

Etymology

By surface analysis, bird + eater. Compare translingual Avicularia.

Inflected Forms

birdeaters (plural) bird-eater (alternative) bird eater (alternative)

Questions

What does birdeater mean?: Anything which eats birds.
Where does birdeater come from?: By surface analysis, bird + eater. Compare translingual Avicularia.

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