lyrebirds
Meaning of lyrebirds
noun
Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus Menura, named because of the beautiful tail feathers of the male of one species, the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which can be erected to look like a lyre, and notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.
Information about lyrebirds
- It is a name.
- The singular form of lyrebirds is: lyrebird.
- Languages in which lyrebirds is used:
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Hyphenation of lyrebirds
lyre-birds
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- lyrebirds is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with lyrebirds
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