Other forms: blackbirds
A blackbird is a dark garden bird with a yellow beak and a lovely song. A blackbird singing, the blackbird's nest, a female blackbird.
The male is black with an orange-yellow beak and eye ring; the female is brown and often mistaken for something else. Its song is among the most admired of any European bird, and it sings earliest and latest in the day. The American blackbird is an unrelated family. Note four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, from the nursery rhyme.
1nounblackbirdA dark garden bird with a yellow beak.
“A blackbird was singing on the garden fence at dawn.”
blackbird is a bird.
Middle English blakebird is black plus bird, and it first meant the ouzel. American blackbirds were named later by settlers for their colour alone.
Middle English
blakebird
English, today
blackbird
Built from
From Middle English blakebird, blacbrid (“ouzel; Eurasian blackbird”), equivalent to black + bird.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA