wax-eye

English

Noun

wax-eye (plural wax-eyes)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A bird of the genus Zosterops; a silvereye.
    • 1982, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 11:
      [T]he world being My Place by the fallen birch log, with the grass, the insects in the grass, the sky, the sheep and cows and rabbits, the wax-eyes and the hawks – everything Outside.
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