rainbird
noun
rainbird is a noun meaning “Any of the coucal species Centropus supercilliosus, Centropus cupreicadus, Centropus senegalensis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-I-N-B-I-R-D, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rainbird is rainbirds.
What does rainbird mean?
noun
- 1
Any of the coucal species Centropus supercilliosus, Centropus cupreicadus, Centropus senegalensis.
- 2
A grey warbler (Gerygone igata).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rainbird
- rainbirds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rainbird?
Rainbird appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does rainbird come from?
From rain + bird, from the sound of their call, a beautiful liquid gurgle rising and falling like water pouring from a bottle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).