murmurate
English
Verb
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- (intransitive) Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.
- 2009, Daniel Butler, The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph:
- By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.
- 2013, Ruth Bass, Word playing gives birds new nicknames, The Berkshire Eagle:
- There's a glister of goldfinches, an exaltation of larks, a swoop of swallows, a chain of bobolinks, a scold of blue jays, a murmuration of starlings, which are at their best when they murmurate by the hundreds across a gray sky.
- 2009, Daniel Butler, The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph:
Related terms
Esperanto
Adverb
murmurate
- present adverbial passive participle of murmuri
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) murmurāte