Bald eagle
() The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head. |
Black snake
(n.) Alt. of Blacksnake |
Bold eagle
() an Australian eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo. |
Brown
(superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. |
Brown
(n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow |
Brown
(v. t.) To make brown or dusky. |
Brown
(v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly |
Brown
(v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. |
Brown
(v. i.) To become brown. |
Brown bill
() A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. |
Brown thrush
() A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird |
Coachwhip snake
() A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis). |
Congo snake
() An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma. |
Eagle
(n.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus) |
Eagle
(n.) A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. |
Eagle
(n.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila. |
Eagle
(n.) The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people. |
Eagle-eyed
(a.) Sharp-sighted as an eagle. |
Eagle-sighted
(a.) Farsighted and strong-sighted |
Eagle-winged
(a.) Having the wings of an eagle |
Gier-eagle
(n.) A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus). |
Glass-snake
(n.) A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of the Southern United States |
Hair-brown
(a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Nut-brown
(a.) Brown as a nut long kept and dried. |
Sea eagle
() Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail |
Sea eagle
() The eagle ray. See under Ray. |
Seal-brown
(a.) Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed. |
Sea snake
() Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad. |
Snake
(n.) Any species of the order Ophidia |
Snake
(v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole |
Snake
(v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one |
Snake
(v. i.) To crawl like a snake. |
Snake's-head
(n.) The Guinea-hen flower |
Snake's-tongue
(n.) Same as Adder's-tongue. |
Spread-eagle
(a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style |
Water eagle
() The osprey. |
Water snake
() A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water. |
Water snake
() Any species of snakes of the family Homalopsidae, all of which are aquatic in their habits. |
Whity-brown
(a.) Of a color between white and brown. |
| snake dance | a ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked |
| spread eagle | a skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line |
| brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
| eagle ray | powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins, usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays |
spotted eagle ray
spotted ray
Aetobatus narinari | ray with back covered with white or yellow spots, widely distributed in warm seas |
brown thrasher
brown thrush
Toxostoma rufums | common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage |
brown creeper
American creeper
Certhia americana | a common creeper in North America with a downurved bill |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
eagle
bird of Jove | any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight |
harpy harpy eagle
Harpia harpyja | large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America |
golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos | large eagle of mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere having a golden-brown head and neck |
tawny eagle
Aquila rapax | brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia |
bald eagle
American eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus | a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body |
| sea eagle | any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish |
Kamchatkan sea eagle
Stellar's sea eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus | found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific |
ern
erne
grey sea eagle
gray sea eagle
European sea eagle
white-tailed sea eagle
Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
fishing eagle
Haliaeetus leucorhyphus | of southeast Europe and central Asia |
osprey
fish hawk
fish eagle
sea eagle Pandion haliaetus | large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years |
amphiuma
congo snake
congo eel
blind eel | aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States |
glass lizard
glass snake
joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
snake
serpent
ophidian | limbless scaly elongate reptile, some are venomous |
colubrid snake
colubrid | mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
| hoop snake | any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop |
thunder snake
worm snake Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
ringneck snake
ring-necked snake
ring snake | any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
hognose snake
puff adder sand viper | harmless North American snake with upturned nose, may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed |
| leaf-nosed snake | any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America |
| green snake grass snake | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
smooth green snake
Opheodrys vernalis | of western and central United States |
rough green snake
Opheodrys aestivus | of southern and eastern United States |
| green snake | any of numerous African colubrid snakes |
whip-snake
whip snake
whipsnake | any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails |
coachwhip
coachwhip snake
Masticophis flagellum | a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico, tail resembles a braided whip |
| rat snake | any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia |
corn snake
red rat snake
Elaphe guttata | large harmless snake of southeastern United States, often on farms |
black rat snake
blacksnake pilot blacksnake
mountain blacksnake
Elaphe obsoleta | large harmless shiny black North American snake |
| chicken snake | large North American snake |
Indian rat snake
Ptyas mucosus | enter buildings in pursuit of prey |
glossy snake
Arizona elegans | nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales |
bull snake
bull-snake | any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
| gopher snake Pituophis melanoleucus | bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows |
| pine snake | any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods, now threatened |
king snake
kingsnake | any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors, feed on other snakes and small mammals |
milk snake
house snake
milk adder
checkered adder
Lampropeltis triangulum | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot, southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes |
garter snake
grass snake | any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes |
common garter snake
Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
ribbon snake
Thamnophis sauritus | slender yellow-striped North American garter snake, prefers wet places |
Western ribbon snake
Thamnophis proximus | yellow- or reddish-striped snake of temperate woodlands and grasslands to tropics |
lined snake
Tropidoclonion lineatum | secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods, feeds on earthworms, of central United States |
ground snake
Sonora semiannulata | small shy brightlyinged terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America |