diock

plural diocks

1. alternativeAlternative form of dioch.

   […] SIX MILLION Sudan diocks (small African birds) were exterminated.

   1962, The Victoria Naturalist

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   The birds live chiefly on the seeds of plants and grasses, on rice kernels, the fruit of the ficus Indica, and […] It is a real little spitfire, and while a pair of these Diocks are busy building the nest, they will quarel and[…]

   1899, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele, Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, page 443

   Among the cleverest of the artists is the diock, of the weaver family. His home is in Africa, and he is an expert in the weaving of colour into the patterns of his nest. The finished house is a thing of great charm : soft and tinted[…]

   1917, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Birds, page 4