Meanings
plural belted kingfishers
- Megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher.
The jaunty wood-duck smiled and bowed; The belted kingfisher laughed aloud,
1883, Maurice Thompson, “The Death of the White Heron”, in Songs of Fair Weather1 more example
It is called a belted kingfisher because of the blue-gray band across the breast of the male, with an additional reddish band below the blue-gray one on females.
1999, George Wilby Scotter, Edgar T. Jones, Tom J. Ulrich, Birds of the Canadian Rockies, Fifth House Publishers, page 82
Synonyms & antonyms
noungreyish-blue North American kingfisher with a chestnut band on its chest
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
belted kingfisher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/belted%20kingfisher
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