The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tropic \Trop"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
Tropic bird (Zo["o]l.), any one of three species of oceanic belonging to the genus Pha["e]thon, found chiefly in tropical seas. They are mostly white, and have two central tail feathers very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Pha["e]thon flavirostris (called also boatswain), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.
WordNet
n. mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land [syn: tropicbird, boatswain bird]
Usage examples of "tropic bird".
She knew now it was only some huge, tropic bird, afar on the horizon—.
As he watched the birds wheeling round the cliff - he saw a white tropic bird with its long forked tail streaming out like two ribbons - he was thankful that.
So they went to Honolulu in the Hall, and thence in the Umatilla to San Francisco with a crowd of Haoles, and at San Francisco took their passage by the mail brigantine, the Tropic Bird, for Papeete, the chief place of the French in the south islands.
First a bright patch of colour, like a tropic bird among the boughs.