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Word: Ricebird
Speech Type: Noun
early 18th century (in an earlier sense). From rice + bird
The bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, flocks of which often frequent rice fields while on migration. Compare "rice bunting", reed-bird.
Any of various other birds, especially songbirds, (supposedly) found in rice fields.
The Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora (family Estrildidae), which frequents rice fields in Asia and is popular as a cage bird.
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