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birds and bees

bird and bee
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [burd and bee]
    • /bɜrd ænd bi/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [burd and bee]
    • /bɜrd ænd bi/

Definitions of birds and bees words

  • noun birds and bees any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg. 1
  • noun birds and bees a fowl or game bird. 1
  • noun birds and bees Sports. clay pigeon. a shuttlecock. 1
  • noun birds and bees Slang. a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird. 1
  • noun birds and bees Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile. 1
  • noun birds and bees Cookery. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds. 1
See all 20 definitions of birds and bees

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Origin of birds and bees

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English byrd, bryd, Old English brid(d) young bird, chick

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Birds and bees

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Birds and bees

birds and bees popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for birds and bees

noun birds and bees

  • sexuality — sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex.
  • sensuality — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
  • copulation — sexual intercourse.
  • generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • fornication — voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
All 14 Synonyms of birds and bees

Antonyms for birds and bees

noun birds and bees

  • abstention — Abstention is a formal act of not voting either for or against a proposal.
  • chastity — the state of being chaste; purity
All 2 Antonyms of birds and bees

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