murmuration noun.
[mǝ:mjʊ'reɪʃ(ǝ)n] LME.[French from Latin murmuratio(n-), from murmurat- pa. ppl stem of murmurare MURMUR verb: see -ATION.]1. The action of murmuring; an instance of this, a murmur. Now chiefly
Scot. &
literary.
LME.Westminster Gazette Plaints and murmurations..for the grievances which they clamoured to have redressed. ■ L. MacNeice Murmuration of corn in the wind.2. A company of starlings.
L15.■ J. Heath-Stubbs Scores of starlings, wheeling,..the whole murmuration Turning like one bird.► In isolated use in sense 2 in
L15, revived
M20. [TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲