Meanings
nounmother-bird (plural mother-birds)
plural mother-birds
- A female parent of a chick or chicks.
From the branch of a tree overhead she heard a watchful mother-bird's warning call, and the twitter of the disturbed nestlings.
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 5
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