butterbird

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English

Etymology

butter +‎ bird, from its fatness.

Noun

butterbird (plural butterbirds)

  1. (Jamaica) The bobolink (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 780: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for butterbird”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)