riflebird

1. 1.

   velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail

   SynonymsPtloris paradisea

   Broaderbird of paradise

Other forms of riflebird

plural

riflebirds·

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.

Questions about riflebird

What does riflebird mean?

riflebird means "velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail".

How many syllables are in riflebird?

riflebird has 3 syllables: ri-fle-bird. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for riflebird?

Close synonyms include Ptloris paradisea. 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 riflebird a common word?

riflebird is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.