Bird’s-eye: Definition and part of speech

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Bird’s-eye

  1. n. A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant’s eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.
  2. a. Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details; as, a bird’s-eye view.
  3. a. Marked with spots resembling bird’s eyes; as, bird’s-eye diaper; bird’s-eye maple.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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