Bird's-eye

Quick meaning: Bird's-eye is an adjective meaning Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird.

Meaning

Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird.

More Meanings

1. As if viewed from an altitude; panoramic.
2. A fabric having a pattern of small circles or diamonds with a spot in each centre.
3. A kind of tobacco.
4. A figure found in wood, especially hard maple, resembling tiny swirling eyes disrupting the smooth grain.
5. (music, colloquial) A fermata (notation).

Example Sentences

There is also one of the woodblocks used to print Jacopo de’ Barbari’s revolutionary bird’s-eye panorama of Venice and the lagoon, from 1500.

In the 1970s Thiebaud became increasingly interested in landscapes and cityscapes that he painted from a bird’s-eye perspective. In “Potrero Hill” a painting from the mid-1970s, he jammed freeways, hills and buildings together in a steep vertical of color and light.

Word Forms

• birds eye
• birds-eye
• birdseye
• bird's-eyes

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