thunderbird

Noun
US[thuhn-der-burd]/ˈθʌndɚˌbɝd/3 syllables

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)thunderbirds

  1. (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great birdType of spirit, disembodied spirit
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Thun′der·bird′ noun

Zoology An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Thunderbird

<messaging, open source> A complete free, open-source e-mail client from the Mozilla Foundation and therefore a true code descendent of the e-mail code in Netscape Navigator. The first non-beta release was in late 2004. The Firefox web browser is from the same source.

Thunderbird Home (http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird).

(2005-01-26)

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