bijeneter

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of bij (“bee”) +‎ -en- +‎ eter (“eater”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛiə(n)eːtər/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bij‧en‧eter

Noun

bijeneter m (plural bijeneters, diminutive bijenetertje n)

  1. bee-eater (any of various brightly-coloured, insectivorous, near-passerine birds of the family Meropidae)
  2. (particularly) European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

Derived terms

  • groene bijeneter

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.