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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bowerbird is a noun meaning "any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females". It carries one recorded sense.
any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bowerbird come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.