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Baby bird   /bˈeɪbi bərd/   Listen
Baby bird

noun
1.
Young bird not yet fledged.  Synonym: nestling.






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"Baby bird" Quotes from Famous Books



... her pennies and nickels and dimes. They land on her head and one takes her on the nose. And her voice dies away like a baby bird falling out of a nest. And she stands still—jerking her mouth and the pennies falling all around her. And a cynical-looking youth bounces out and picks them up. Bravo! She tried to bow and slipped. Another round of applause for that. All right, take her ...
— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht

... this. She did love the tiny unwelcome child of Myra Longman, a child without a father, or a place in the world. Tess loved the babe because there was an expression in its eyes that she had once seen in a wounded baby bird's ... a pitiful unborn expression which would go with the brat to ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

... her father. "See, it is only a baby bird, which has fallen from its nest, and is crying for its mother. Show me where you found it; perhaps I can reach the nest if we can discover it ...
— All About Johnnie Jones • Carolyn Verhoeff



Words linked to "Baby bird" :   young bird



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