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    FLYING BIRD

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight musclesplay

    Synonyms:

    carinate; carinate bird; flying bird

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("flying bird" is a kind of...):

    bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

    Meronyms (parts of "flying bird"):

    keel (the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly)

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