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# kingfisher

«kingfisher» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, brightly coloured bird with a big head and a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a kingfisher, kingfishers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A kingfisher is a small, brightly coloured bird with a big head and a long sharp beak that dives into water to catch fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/#m1)

2) Some kingfishers, such as the Australian kookaburra, are large and catch lizards and insects on land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons in the UK and Ireland, the common kingfisher is a bright blue and orange river bird; seeing one is a special sighting. In Australia and New Zealand, kookaburras and sacred kingfishers are kinds of kingfisher. Engineers in Japan copied the kingfisher's beak shape to make a quieter, faster bullet train (biomimicry). Phrases: «a flash of blue», «kingfisher blue».

### examples

- A kingfisher dived into the river and caught a fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/#x1)
- We saw a flash of blue — a kingfisher! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/#x2)
- The kookaburra is a big kingfisher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/#x3)
- Kingfishers nest in tunnels in riverbanks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/#x4)
- The bullet train's nose was copied from a kingfisher's beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/#x5)
- Kingfishers need clean rivers with lots of small fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/#x6)

### note

Countable; one word. A kingfisher is not related to kings; the name means it is a very good «fisher».

### In the corpora

- [Kingfishers plunge in beak first, and Japan's bullet train was given a kingfisher-shaped nose to make it quieter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/16/)
- [African pygmy kingfishers are tiny kingfishers that mostly hunt insects in woods, not fish in rivers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kingfisher» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kingfisher/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.