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bluebird

US/ˈbluˌbɝd/
nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,236 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: bluebirds

A bluebird is a small blue North American songbird. A bluebird on the fence.

It nests in holes and has recovered from near collapse because people put up boxes for it. The bluebird of happiness is a symbol from a Belgian play of 1908.

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Definitions of bluebird

  1. 1nounbluebirdA small blue North American songbird.B2

    “A bluebird used the same box for four seasons running.”

bluebird is a bird.

Where it comes from

Blue plus bird, named for the colour of the male.

From blue + bird.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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bluebird in the wild

  • The eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) is a small North American migratory thrush found in open woodlands, farmlands, and orchards.

    Eastern bluebird

  • The mountain bluebird is the state bird of Idaho and Nevada.

    Mountain bluebird

  • The mountain bluebird is a relative of the eastern and western bluebirds.

    Mountain bluebird

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.