Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small, mostly insectivorous birds of the genus Todus of the West Indies, having colorful, predominantly green plumage and a bright red throat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the genus Todus or family Todidæ.
- noun One of several birds formerly misplaced in the genus Todus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
genus Todus of smallinsectivorous Caribbean birds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tiny insectivorous West Indian bird having red-and-green plumage and a long straight bill
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hey Wingshooter was gonna head out (working tody trying to catch up from the week) but decided to check in.
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Hey Wingshooter was gonna head out (working tody trying to catch up from the week) but decided to check in.
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But the next day 50, and the past 3 mornings have stretched that to 200, 300 and 400. may leave it at that for a couple days though, my calves are caning tody.
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The yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis) has a "vulnerable status", and the Maracaibo tody-flycatcher (Todirotrum viridanum) has a "near threatened" status.
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Huffington Post ran a piece tody about McCain employing trolls to post on message boards.
Clinton slightly narrows pledged delegate gap with Obama 2008
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The tody programe at 7.30 this morning had the whole comment about Elliot Morley & his dishonist 16 grand without once mentioning that he is labour.
Open Thread 2009
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Cost has an excellent analysis of the echo chamber effect the media has created tody on Real Clear Politics that is well worth the read.
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The list of Islamic legal horrors is very long…and its very sad that precisely tody in the uk the prime minister answer by a strong NO to 6575 English and EX-muslims and Boudhists etc who asked the premier minister to stop charia law in the UK, because of the particular cruelty of its rules.
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Among the endemic birds associated with mangroves are the Cuban Green Woodpecker Xiphidiopicus percussus, the Jamaican tody Todus todus, and endemic subspecies of the mangrove warbler Dendroica petechia gundlachi, and the clapper rail Rallus longirostris caribaeus.
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Examples are buff-breasted tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus mirandae), white-winged cotinga (Xipholena atropurpurea), seven-colored tanager (Tangara fastuosa), and yellow-faced siskin (Carduelis yarrellii).
madmouth commented on the word tody
birder alert!
September 17, 2010