"waxbird" meaning in English

See waxbird in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: waxbirds [plural]
Etymology: From wax + bird. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wax|bird}} wax + bird Head templates: {{en-noun}} waxbird (plural waxbirds)
  1. (rare) A bird, the waxwing (Bombycilla spp.). Tags: rare Categories (lifeform): Perching birds
    Sense id: en-waxbird-en-noun-I-dRjXqh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wax",
        "3": "bird"
      },
      "expansion": "wax + bird",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wax + bird.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waxbirds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "waxbird (plural waxbirds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Perching birds",
          "orig": "en:Perching birds",
          "parents": [
            "Birds",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bird, the waxwing (Bombycilla spp.)."
      ],
      "id": "en-waxbird-en-noun-I-dRjXqh",
      "links": [
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "waxwing",
          "waxwing"
        ],
        [
          "Bombycilla",
          "Bombycilla#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A bird, the waxwing (Bombycilla spp.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "waxbird"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wax",
        "3": "bird"
      },
      "expansion": "wax + bird",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wax + bird.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waxbirds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "waxbird (plural waxbirds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Perching birds"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bird, the waxwing (Bombycilla spp.)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "waxwing",
          "waxwing"
        ],
        [
          "Bombycilla",
          "Bombycilla#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A bird, the waxwing (Bombycilla spp.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "waxbird"
}

Download raw JSONL data for waxbird meaning in English (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.