BLUEBIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bluebird mean? 

• BLUEBIRD (noun)
  The noun BLUEBIRD has 2 senses:

1. fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies

2. blue North American songbird

  Familiarity information: BLUEBIRD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUEBIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bluebird; fairy bluebird

Hypernyms ("bluebird" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Holonyms ("bluebird" is a member of...):

genus Irena; Irena (type genus of the Irenidae: fairy bluebirds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Blue North American songbird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bluebird" is a kind of...):

thrush (songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast)

Holonyms ("bluebird" is a member of...):

genus Sialia; Sialia (North American bluebirds)