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bird
Noun
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A bird is a warm-blooded animal that has feathers and wings and lays eggs. Most birds can fly.
A sparrow is a bird and so is a penguin, even though it cannot fly.
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When you give someone the bird, you give a vulgar hand gesture where only the middle finger is up.
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A bird is a penis.
bird
Verb
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When you bird, you look for wild birds in their natural home and try to identify them.
brier
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noun
tangled mass of prickly plants
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noun
a thorny stem or twig
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noun
(= sweetbrier)
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
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noun
(= tree heath)
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
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noun
(= bullbrier)
a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries