birddom

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English

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Etymology

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From bird +‎ -dom.

Noun

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birddom (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a bird, or of belonging to the world of birds; birds collectively.
    • 1895, Walter F. Webb, The Museum: A Journal Devoted to Research in Natural Science, volumes 1-3, page 337:
      The parrot particularly, which may be considered the autocrat of the feathered tribes leads all birddom in the number and variety of diseases to which it is subject.
    • 1996, Tom Horton, An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay, page 280:
      As March creeps into April, the panoply of summer birddom has begun to reassemble.
    • 2006, David Moyle, Living With Peacocks, page 1:
      I doubt there is a zoo in the world which doesn't have at least a few of these gorgeous creatures strutting through the grounds, from time to time deigning to show off the most extravagant plumage in all of birddom.