Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird supposed to foretell rain by its cries or actions, as the rain-crow.
- noun The large ground-cuckoo of Jamaica, Saurothera vetula; also, a related cuckoo, Piaya pluvialis.
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Examples
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The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird.
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922
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The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird.
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The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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"This pretty dark bird with the black and white and crimson plumage is the rain-bird -- the blue-billed gaper; and this softly-feathered fellow with the bristles at the side of his bill is a trogon."
Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas George Manville Fenn 1870
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The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird.
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With all its heart the rain-bird longs for the shower of rain;
Songs of Kabir 1440-1518 Kabir 1479
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The rain-bird wails in thirst for the rain: almost she dies of her longing, yet she would have none other water than the rain.
Songs of Kabir 1440-1518 Kabir 1479
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