Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various birds, such as the Baltimore oriole, having bright scarlet or orange plumage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A popular name of the Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula. See oriole.
- n. The vermilion flycatcher, Pyrocephalus rubineus. one of the South American fire-crowned flycatchers, represented in the southwestern United States by the subspecies P. rubineus mexicanus. The full rounded crest and under parts of the male are of a brilliant scarlet, whence the name.
Wiktionary
- n. The scarlet tanager, a species of bird with taxonomic name Piranga olivacea
- n. The Baltimore oriole, a species of bird with taxonomic name Icterus galbula
- n. The vermilion flycatcher, a species of bird with taxonomic name Pyrocephalus rubinus
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The Baltimore oriole.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the male is bright red with black wings and tail
- n. eastern subspecies of northern oriole
- n. tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage
Etymologies
- So-called because of their bright red or orange plumage (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As well as calling Miss Bruce his 'firebird', unmarried Oakey had also scrawled messages inside such as, 'I love you Fiona'.”
“A stalker who bombarded Fiona Bruce with love letters calling her his 'firebird' avoided being sent to jail yesterday despite being criticised by the judge.”
“* Set dynamic config value with arithmetic operation. function set_config_count ($config_name, $increment, $is_dynamic = false) global $db, $cache; switch ($db - > sql_layer) case 'firebird':”
“$db - > sql_freeresult ($result); break; case 'firebird': global $dbname;”
“I have a question about manual steering on second generation camaros? was manual steering availiable on all the second generation camaro or firebird cars 1970 to 1981?”
“Phoenix & Carpet (A firebird as good as a drifting carpet a la Boronov's symphonies)”
“I thought of the firebird when I played the Khachaturian for the recital that never came, and when our mother burst into our rooms late at night.”
“I drew what surrounded me, and what lay deep in my wildest dreams—a firebird like one from our Russian fairy-tale book, a bird that sings to the lonely and forsaken deep in the heart of the woods.”
“The harmful activity has intensified since the firebird year”
“The harmful activity has intensified since the firebird year (1636) and (the spirit) has been successful in many of his missions.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘firebird’.
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fire place
place to place 'fire' words
fire eater, field of fire, campfire, backfire, cannon fire, cease-fire, crown fire, center-fire, direct fire, fire pit, cookfire, fire tongs and 111 more...
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•Open List: Flights of Fancy
Fictitious birds. Thanks to PossibleUnderscore for the idea! (Please add a brief description under "Comments" if the creature isn't well-known.)
phoenix, quetzalcoatl, thunderbird, roc, snipe, Roly-Poly Bird, ba, griffin, sphinx, Foghorn Leghorn, Heckle and Jeckle, firebird and 166 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Animal bipes implume
Specific use of the word bird to describe those featherless bipeds with the broad nails. (From Plato's description of man. See chicken.)
bird, gallows bird, yard bird, jailbird, bird colonel, bird of passage, birdbrain, birdman, firebird, lovebird, Birdman of Alcatraz, railbird and 8 more...
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Fire when ready
Words and phrases containing fire.
fire ant, crossfire, fire and brimstone, spitfire, firepower, fireflower, firetower, firetrap, brushfire, fireworks, fire storm, fight fire with fire and 84 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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Eastern European/Russian mythical cre...
bascelik, bannik, balaur, baba yaga, aitvaras, zaltys, vampire, strigoi, rusalka, dhampir, vilkacis, indrik and 6 more...
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