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bird's-eye

  • /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dz ˈaɪ/
  • /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dzaɪ/

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adjective bird's eye · birds eye · birds-eye · birdseye

  1. not comparable Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird.
  2. not comparable As if viewed from an altitude; panoramic. There is also one of the woodblocks used to print Jacopo de’ Barbari’s revolutionary bird’s-eye panorama of Venice and the lagoon, from 1500.

noun bird's-eyes · bird's eye · birds eye · birds-eye · birdseye

  1. countable, uncountable A fabric having a pattern of small circles or diamonds with a spot in each centre.
  2. countable, uncountable A kind of pipe tobacco in which the leaves are finely sliced laterally, including the stem, giving a bird's eye pattern to the tobacco. Gaudy dollwomen loll in the lighted doorways, in window embrasures, smoking birdseye cigarettes.
  3. countable, uncountable A figure found in wood, especially hard maple, resembling tiny swirling eyes disrupting the smooth grain.
  4. colloquial, countable, uncountable A fermata (notation).

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@misc{bird_s_eye_2026,
  title = {bird's-eye},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bird's-eye},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}