Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any bird of the Australasian family Ptilonorhynchidae noted for building display structures (bowers) and decorating them with bright objects such as shells, glass, flowers, etc.

    Laubenvogel

    шала́шникšalášnik

  2. (figuratively)A person who collects objects for display.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From bower + bird.

From bower + bird.

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Forms

plural: bower birds

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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