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bird's-eye en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dz ˈaɪ/

Meanings

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. 2016 May 5, Roderick Conway Morris, “In Venice, the Power of the Press on Display”, in The New York Times:
   • In the 1970s Thiebaud became increasingly interested in landscapes and cityscapes that he painted from a bird’s-eye perspective. In “Potrero Hill” a painting from the mid-1970s, he jammed freeways, hills and buildings together in a steep vertical of color and light. 2021 December 26, Mary Rourke, “Wayne Thiebaud, prolific California painter and teacher, dies at 101”, in Los Angeles Times:

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Deriveds

bird's-eye maple (spots) · bird's-eye rot (spots) · bird's-eye view (panoramic) · bird's-eye spot (spots)

bird's-eye en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dzaɪ/

Meanings

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 tobacco.
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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