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NIGHT BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does night bird mean? 

NIGHT BIRD (noun)
  The noun NIGHT BIRD has 1 sense:

1. any bird associated with night: owl; nightingale; nighthawk; etcplay

  Familiarity information: NIGHT BIRD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NIGHT BIRD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any bird associated with night: owl; nightingale; nighthawk; etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("night bird" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "night bird"):

night raven (any bird that cries at night)


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