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Man-of-war bird   /mæn-əv-wɔr bərd/   Listen
Man-of-war bird

noun
1.
Long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail.  Synonym: frigate bird.






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"Man-of-war bird" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the cabin-house, watching the frigates, the tropics, gulls, boobys, and other sea-birds that sported through the sky in great numbers. The frigate-birds were called by the sailors the man-of-war bird, and also the sea-hawk. They are marvelous flyers, owing to the size of the pectoral muscles, which compared with those of other birds are extraordinarily large. They cannot rest on the water, but must sustain their flights ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien



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