Red-eyed vs Red-eye depending context

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Red-eyed vs Red-eye depending context

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Hi,

There is a bird called the Red-eyed Vireo.

A phrase could be: "The Red-eyed Vireo is a bird."

In a 1904 book apart of that, I also see: "The Red-eye is a bird that blah blah blah...".

The question is this: What's correct, or more correct, in today's English when you don't want to say Vireo?

- The Red-eye is a bird...
Or
- The Red-eyed is a bird...


Note: The capitalizations of bird names are common in the birding literature.

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Re: Red-eyed vs Red-eye depending context

Post by Alan »

This is a matter for the dictionary, not really a grammar issue. However, 'red-eye' sounds much more plausible as a noun than the adjectival 'red-eyed'.
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