birdlike

comparative more birdlike · superlative most birdlike · alternative bird-like

1. Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird; reminiscent of birds.

   a birdlike song; birdlike eyes

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   Once or twice I heard a faint pitter-patter like the feet of the dog going hither and thither on the sand far below me, and there were more bird-like sounds, but that was all.

   1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 237

   Frail, birdlike wrists and no muscle anywhere on his tiny frame.

   2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 82

   Synonyms: avianlike, avian, birdly, birdy, avian, avianlike, birdlike / bird-like, birdly

comparative more birdlike · superlative most birdlike · alternative bird-like

1. postpositionalIn the manner of a bird; as, to fly.