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kingfisher noun & adjective. Also (earlier) king's-fisher. ME.
[from KING noun + FISHER.]
A. noun.
A small European bird, Alcedo atthis, with a long beak and brilliant blue and orange plumage, feeding on fish and aquatic animals which it captures by diving; any bird of the family Alcedinidae, most members of which feed in this manner. ME.
malachite kingfisher, pied kingfisher, etc.
= kingfisher blue below. E20.
Comb.: kingfisher blue (of) a brilliant blue colour.
b. adjective. Of kingfisher blue. M20.