Usually means: Nocturnal, fruit-eating bird species.
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  1. oilbird: Merriam-Webster
  2. oilbird: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oilbird: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oilbird: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. oilbird: Wordnik
  7. oilbird: Wiktionary
  8. oilbird: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. oilbird: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Oilbird, oilbird, oilbird: Dictionary.com
  11. Oilbird: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Oilbird: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. oilbird: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. oilbird: Rhymezone
  15. Oilbird: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. oilbird: FreeDictionary.org
  17. oilbird: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (oilbird)

noun:  A nocturnal South American bird, of the species Steatornis caripensis of the order Steatornithiformes, related to the nightjars that feeds on the fruit of the oil palm and tropical laurels.

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