Meaning

1 senses
  1. A tropical bird, Phaethon aethereus, often found far from land, whose cry resembles the whistle of a boatswain's pipe.

Forms

plural: boatswain-birds
Singularboatswain-bird
Pluralboatswain-birds

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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