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- noun Plural form of
weaverbird .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In Zimbabwe, wildlife researchers have found that blocks of napier grass, strategically placed, can attract nightly flocks of weaverbirds.
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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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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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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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