Afrikaans word senses marked with lifeform category "Birds"
Parent categories: Vertebrates, Chordates, Animals, Lifeforms, Life, Nature
Subcategories: Birds of prey, Eggs, Fowls, Freshwater birds, Hoopoes and hornbills, Otidimorph birds, Penguins, Perching birds, Poultry, Ratites, Seabirds
Total 49 word senses
- aasvoël (Noun) bird feeding on carrion, vulture
- arend (Noun) eagle
- bloukraanvoël (Noun) blue crane (Grus paradisea)
- bokmakierie (Noun) bokmakierie, a species of shrike
- boskraai (Noun) hornbill
- budjie (Noun) budgerigar
- dagbreker (Noun) Any of the chats of South Africa.
- dikkop (Noun) stone curlew, dikkop
- dubbeldooier (Noun) a double-yolked egg, an egg with two yolks
- dubbeldoor (Noun) Alternative form of dubbeldooier
- duif (Noun) pigeon, dove
- duiker (Noun) diver (a person or thing that dives)
- eend (Noun) duck
- flamink (Noun) flamingo, bird of the family Phoenicopteridae
- gans (Noun) goose
- gompou (Noun) kori bustard
- hamerkop (Noun) hammerkop (bird)
- hawik (Noun) hawk
- hoender (Noun) chicken
- kafferkraai (Noun) hornbill
- kolgans (Noun) The Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiaca
- kraanvoël (Noun) crane (bird)
- kwartel (Noun) quail
- kwêvoël (Noun) the go-away bird, Crinifer concolor
- langtoon (Noun) jacana, bird of the family Jacanidae
- loerie (Noun) turaco, lourie
- lyster (Noun) thrush
- makou (Noun) A Muscovy duck, Cairina moschata.
- malgas (Noun) gannet or booby; sulid (any bird in the family Sulidae)
- maraboe (Noun) marabou stork
- mees (Noun) tit, chickadee
- meeu (Noun) gull
- neushoringvoël (Noun) hornbill
- papegaai (Noun) a person who parrots, or repeats uncritically, the words of others
- pikkewyn (Noun) penguin
- pou (Noun) peacock
- pylstert (Noun) hawk moth
- raaf (Noun) raven
- renostervoël (Noun) oxpecker (bird of the genus Buphagus)
- seevoël (Noun) seabird, marine bird
- sekretarisvoël (Noun) secretary bird
- spreeu (Noun) starling
- swaan (Noun) swan
- tarentaal (Noun) guinea fowl
- visarend (Noun) fish eagle, especially the African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer).
- vleiloerie (Noun) coucal
- volstruis (Noun) ostrich
- voël (Noun) A bird.
- wildepou (Noun) bustard
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