thunderbird

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

thunderbird
    n 1: (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by
         some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Thunderbird \Thun"der*bird`\, n. (Zool.)
   An Australian insectivorous singing bird ({Pachycephala
   gutturalis}). The male is conspicuously marked with black and
   yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also
   {white-throated thickhead}, {orange-breasted thrust},
   {black-crowned thrush}, {guttural thrush}, and
   {black-breasted flycatcher}.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Thunderbird

   <messaging, open source> A complete {free}, {open-source}
   {e-mail client} from the {Mozilla Foundation} and therefore a
   true code descendent of the e-mail code in {Netscape
   Navigator}.  The first non-{beta release} was in late 2004.
   The {Firefox} web browser is from the same source.

   Thunderbird Home
   (http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird).

   (2005-01-26)

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