🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

pássaro mergulhador

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈpasɐɾu meʁɡuˈʎadɔʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Diving Bird/ˈdaɪ.vɪŋ bɜrd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O gavião-pescador é um pássaro mergulhador conhecido."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A bird that hunts for food by diving into water.

    "The osprey is a well-known diving bird that catches fish with remarkable precision."
  2. 2

    Any bird that exhibits the behavior of diving as part of its feeding strategy.

    "Many species of ducks are classified as diving birds due to their ability to submerge and forage underwater."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'diving bird' combines 'diving', derived from the Old English 'dyfan', meaning to plunge or submerge, and 'bird', from the Proto-Germanic '*burdiz', referring to a flying creature. The phrase has evolved to describe birds that hunt or feed by diving into water.

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