rainbow bee-eater
noun
A migratory bee-eater, Merops ornatus, which has multicoloured plumage and a black eyestripe, and breeds chiefly in Australia.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Ernest Thomas Gilliard (1912–1965).
- whistler
- Whistler, James McNeill
- whistle something down the wind
- whistle-stop
- whistling duck
- whistling kettle
- whistling swan
- whit
- whitbed
- Whitby
- Whitby, Synod of
- white
- white acajou
- white acre
- white admiral
- white Africa
- white African
- white alder
- white ale
- white alyssum
- white amur
- white ant
- white antimony
- white archangel
- White Army