young bird
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1.2
- noun
:
pájaro joven
- In spring, many young birds leave their nests to learn how to fly.
- young birds in a nest
- young birds know
- young birds then
Examples
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Counting the young birds, there are now approximately sixty cranes in the flock.
Fiction book (1993) -
Young birds often look quite different from adults of the same species.
Academic text (2006) -
A very young bird had fallen down from his house.
Blog text (5) -
In many of these cases, the animal is a young bird that was learning to fly and just wasn't very good at it yet.
Fiction book (2001) -
It is the season for the young birds.
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Adults migrated first, and young birds left later.
Academic text (1992) -
"We have heard, anecdotally, that brood recruitment has been great and that there are a lot of young birds that survived the spring."
Blog text (6) -
Although the visiting galahs called and displayed to the fosterling, the young bird remained unmoved.
Academic text (1991) -
Rich in bacteria, the mash helps to inoculate the young birds' developing crops with important fermenting microbes.
Academic text (1992) -
Because size at fledging often determines the survival of young birds, it seems that breeding females speed up the growth of nestlings that would otherwise be at a disadvantage due to their hatching order.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
123
1.0
A very young bird, especially a newly hatched chicken
14
9.3
A friendly way to say child or young animal
12
3.5
A very young animal that has just come out of its egg, like a bird or turtle
11
1.0
A very young bird without enough feathers to fly or leave the nest
2
5.6
A young bird that cannot fly and stays in the nest
A very young chicken
Antonyms
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bird that has not yet reached adulthood' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'young' (in an early life stage) with 'bird' (a feathered animal); this is a standard adjective + noun compositional pattern. Cross-linguistically common and semantically literal, it would be readily understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Young bird brings to mind a small young bird in a nest or on the ground being fed by its parent as it learns to fly. So it means 'a bird that has not yet reached adulthood', like a 'chick' or 'fledgling'.