snow bunting

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   white Arctic bunting

   SynonymssnowbirdsnowflakePlectrophenax nivalis

   Broaderbunting

   Part ofPlectrophenax

Questions about snow bunting

What does snow bunting mean?

snow bunting means "white Arctic bunting".

What is another word for snow bunting?

Close synonyms include snowbird, snowflake, Plectrophenax nivalis. 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 snow bunting a common word?

snow bunting 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.