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bird feeder en · NOUN

Etymology

From bird + feeder.

Meanings

1. A device placed outdoors to supply food to birds.
   • Although artist-designed urns and other objects are still a tiny fraction of the $11 billion death-care industry, as it is known, the gallery’s opening — along with novelty items like wind chimes with built-in cavities, pencils made from cremated remains (roughly 250 pencils per person), diamonds made from ash carbon and birdfeeders designed to scatter ashes — reflect the shifting demographics of death and disposition. 2007 January 18, Patricia Leigh Brown, “In Death as in Life, a Personalized Space”, in New York Times:

Forms

Relateds

bird table

Translations (8)

es comedero para pájaros (a device placed outdoors to supply food to birds) · sv fågelmatare (a device placed outdoors to supply food to birds) · pl karmnik (a device placed outdoors to supply food to birds) · sv fågelbord (a device placed outdoors to supply food to birds) · hu madáretető (a device placed outdoors to supply food to birds) · fr mangeoire à oiseaux (a device placed outdoors to supply food to birds) · tr kuş besleyici (a device placed outdoors to supply food to birds) · fi lintulauta (a device placed outdoors to supply food to birds)