BIRD OF PASSAGE meaning: Migrant temporarily residing and working

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bird of passage: Merriam-Webster
bird of passage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bird of passage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bird of passage: Collins English Dictionary
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bird of passage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
bird of passage: Wiktionary
bird of passage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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bird of passage: Rhymezone
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bird of passage: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Bird of passage: Phrase Finder
bird of passage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bird of passage)

▸ noun: (ornithology) A migratory bird, especially a passage migrant (“a bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration”).
▸ noun: (figuratively) Someone passing through a place and only staying for a short time; an itinerant.

Types:

swallow, swift, tern, osprey, plover, arctic tern, whimbrel, red knot, more...

Adjectives:

cuckoo, winged, raven, columbiform, sod, fowl, teal, phasianid, mute, juvenal, migrant

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