birddom
English
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editbirddom (uncountable)
- The state of being a bird, or of belonging to the world of birds; birds collectively.
- 1895, Walter F. Webb, The Museum: A Journal Devoted to Research in Natural Science, volumes 1-3, page 337:
- The parrot particularly, which may be considered the autocrat of the feathered tribes leads all birddom in the number and variety of diseases to which it is subject.
- 1996, Tom Horton, An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay, page 280:
- As March creeps into April, the panoply of summer birddom has begun to reassemble.
- 2006, David Moyle, Living With Peacocks, page 1:
- I doubt there is a zoo in the world which doesn't have at least a few of these gorgeous creatures strutting through the grounds, from time to time deigning to show off the most extravagant plumage in all of birddom.