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doctorbird

noun

Definition of doctorbird

1 : green tody
2 : a curve-billed hummingbird (Sericotes holosericeus) of the West Indies broadly : any of various West Indian hummingbirds

History and Etymology for doctorbird

probably so called from the resemblance of the bill to a surgical needle

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