man-of-war bird

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   long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail

   Synonymsfrigate bird

   Broaderpelecaniform seabird

   Part ofFregata

Questions about man-of-war bird

What does man-of-war bird mean?

man-of-war bird means "long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail".

What is another word for man-of-war bird?

Close synonyms include frigate 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 man-of-war bird a common word?

man-of-war 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.