YOUNG BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does young bird mean? 

• YOUNG BIRD (noun)
  The noun YOUNG BIRD has 1 sense:

1. a bird that is still young

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNG BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bird that is still young

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

offspring; young (any immature animal)

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

fledgeling; fledgling (young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying)

baby bird; nestling (young bird not yet fledged)

eaglet (a young eagle)

biddy; chick (young bird especially of domestic fowl)

cygnet (a young swan)

Holonyms ("young bird" is a member of...):

Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)

 Context examples 

I could have done very well if I had been without the Murdstones; but the influence of the Murdstones upon me was like the fascination of two snakes on a wretched young bird.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To every traveller it was a sight of beauty, but to me it was the world—the great wide free world—and my heart thrilled and fluttered as the young bird’s may when it first hears the whirr of its own flight, and skims along with the blue heaven above it and the green fields beneath.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)