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parrotbill

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
par-rot-bill
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of warbler-like birds in the family Paradoxornithidae, native to East and Southeast Asia, generally small and long-tailed, which inhabit reed beds and similar habitats and feed mainly on seeds.

Etymology

From parrot + bill.

Inflected Forms

parrotbills (plural)

Phrases

black-breasted parrotbill black-headed parrotbill brown parrotbill great parrotbill grey-headed parrotbill reed parrotbill rufous-headed parrotbill greater rufous-headed parrotbill

Synonyms

crow-tit paradoxornithid

Questions

What does parrotbill mean?
Any of a group of warbler-like birds in the family Paradoxornithidae, native to East and Southeast Asia, generally small and long-tailed, which inhabit reed beds and similar habitats and feed mainly on seeds.
Where does parrotbill come from?
From parrot + bill.

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