toothbill

English

Etymology

From tooth +‎ bill.

Noun

toothbill (plural toothbills)

1. The tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris), a fruit-eating pigeon native to the Samoan Islands, somewhat resembling the extinct dodo.

Synonyms

• manumea

References

• “toothbill”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.