'Fairy bluebird' definitions:
Definition of 'fairy bluebird'
From: WordNet
noun
Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies [syn: fairy bluebird, bluebird]
Definition of 'Fairy bluebird'
From: GCIDE
- Fairy \Fair"y\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to fairies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Fairy bird (Zool.), the Euoropean little tern ({Sterna minuta}); -- called also sea swallow, and hooded tern.
- Fairy bluebird. (Zool.) See under Bluebird.
- Fairy martin (Zool.), a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs.
- Fairy rings or Fairy circles, the circles formed in grassy lawns by certain fungi (as Marasmius Oreades), formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances; also, the mushrooms themselves. Such circles may have diameters larger than three meters.
- Fairy shrimp (Zool.), a European fresh-water phyllopod crustacean (Chirocephalus diaphanus); -- so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species.
- Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite. [1913 Webster]