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snakebird

[ sneyk-burd ]

noun



snakebird

/ ˈsneɪkˌbɜːd /

noun

  1. another name for darter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of snakebird1

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; snake + bird
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Example Sentences

Its long neck resembles a snake ready to strike when the Anhinga - also called a snakebird - is swimming.

The heron, the snakebird, and the redshank, waded through the shallow drifts; and geese, widgeon, teal, and mallard, rose whirring in the air at every step.

In Plotus, the snakebird, the pyloric chamber of the stomach is beset with a mass of hair-like stiff filaments which permit nothing but fluid to pass into the duodenum.

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