ceryle alcyon

1. 1.

   greyish-blue North American kingfisher with a chestnut band on its chest

   Synonymsbelted kingfisher

   Broaderkingfisher

   Part ofCeryle

Questions about ceryle alcyon

What does ceryle alcyon mean?

ceryle alcyon means "greyish-blue North American kingfisher with a chestnut band on its chest".

What is another word for ceryle alcyon?

Close synonyms include belted kingfisher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ceryle alcyon a common word?

ceryle alcyon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.