flying bird

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   birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles

   Synonymscarinatecarinate bird

   Broaderbird

   Partskeel

Questions about flying bird

What does flying bird mean?

flying bird means "birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles".

What is another word for flying bird?

Close synonyms include carinate, carinate bird. 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 flying bird a common word?

flying bird 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.