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  • noun Plural form of weaverbird.

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Examples

  • Crocodiles sunned themselves on the sandbank near the weir, mouths wide open to allow the egrets to pick clean their fearsome teeth; masked weaverbirds squabbled noisily in the gum trees; and impalas bounced around the water hole: trampolinists testing new springs.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Crocodiles sunned themselves on the sandbank near the weir, mouths wide open to allow the egrets to pick clean their fearsome teeth; masked weaverbirds squabbled noisily in the gum trees; and impalas bounced around the water hole: trampolinists testing new springs.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Plucking a few reeds from the edge of the lake, she tried to put them together as the weaverbirds did.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • Plucking a few reeds from the edge of the lake, she tried to put them together as the weaverbirds did.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • Plucking a few reeds from the edge of the lake, she tried to put them together as the weaverbirds did.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • In Zimbabwe, wildlife researchers have found that blocks of napier grass, strategically placed, can attract nightly flocks of weaverbirds.

    4 Questions and Answers 1993

  • Zena had finally succeeded in making herself a container like the weaverbirds’ nests she so admired.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • Zena had finally succeeded in making herself a container like the weaverbirds’ nests she so admired.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • Zena had finally succeeded in making herself a container like the weaverbirds’ nests she so admired.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

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