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Bird family   /bərd fˈæməli/   Listen
Bird family

noun
1.
A family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.





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"Bird family" Quotes from Famous Books



... love, for I couldn't help hearing in my mind's ears that great dangerous racer bearing Matthew away from me at the rate of eighty miles an hour. I was figuring on just how long it would take the five to eight hundred children of the Bird family, which I expected to incarnate themselves out of egg-shells, to increase to a flock of two thousand, from which, I was assured by the statistics in that very reliable book, I ought to make three thousand dollars ...
— The Golden Bird • Maria Thompson Daviess
... Especially do they revel on the lawns at Tahoe Tavern, their red-breasts and their peculiar "smithing" or "cokeing" just as alluring and interesting as the plumage and voices of the richer feathered and finer songsters of the bird family. ...
— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James


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