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adj. - Resembling an avian animal.

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Usage examples (38)
  • Agatha is small, and kind of birdlike, and she carries her purse around and shows you where everything is.
  • Some words are ambiguously hyphenated in the original, for example compare "birdlike" (page 40) with "bird-like" (page 383).
  • She went out, following the birdlike Mrs. Scattergood.
  • Then she recited in her pretty, hissing, birdlike voice.
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