Definition of "bird" []

• Any of various warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered vertebrates of the class Aves, having forelimbs modified to form wings. (noun)
• Such an animal hunted as game. (noun)
• Such an animal, especially a chicken or turkey, used as food: put the bird in the oven. (noun)
• See clay pigeon. (noun)
• Sports See shuttlecock. (noun)

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• "A bird, no, a _bird_ circled above him, a stark silhouette against the blue sky, with powerful wings of such size as Milleus had never seen."
• ""A crow is a large black bird:" -- a large, _black -- bird_."
• "To my mind, the term bird refuge didn't contain any ambiguity."