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FLYING BIRD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles
Synonyms:
carinate; carinate bird; flying bird
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flying bird" is a kind of...):
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Meronyms (parts of "flying bird"):
keel (the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly)