"birdlike" meaning in English

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          "word": "birdlikeness"
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          "text": "Once or twice I heard a faint pitter-patter like the feet of the dog going hither and thither on the sand far below me, and there were more bird-like sounds, but that was all.",
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          "text": "Frail, birdlike wrists and no muscle anywhere on his tiny frame.",
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          "avian",
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          "word": "volucrine"
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          "roman": "ptinómorfos",
          "sense": "similar to a bird",
          "word": "πτηνόμορφος"
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          "sense": "similar to a bird",
          "word": "madárszerű"
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          "sense": "similar to a bird",
          "word": "ushagoil"
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          "sense": "similar to a bird",
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      "word": "bird-like"
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  "word": "birdlike"
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        "(postpositive) In the manner of a bird; as, to fly."
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      "word": "πτηνόμορφος"
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      "sense": "similar to a bird",
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      "sense": "similar to a bird",
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