amethyst starling
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.72 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Now, in certain lights (for afterwards I saw the bird many times) the plumage does not appear copper-coloured but the prevailing appearance is purple, and in Rhodesia the egg-collecting schoolboys call the amethyst starling a “purple-back”. Apart from his marvellous purple beauty I doubt if any bird has a breast of a purer and more gleaming white."
- "In western Arabia and northern Abyssinia females of the amethyst starling are very uniform earthy brown above, though the males are like those of the nominate race; thus C. l. arabicus Grant and Mackworth-Praed is a well-established race."
- "One of his hens was being attacked by an amethyst starling, plucking her downy feathers to line its nest."