| starling | gregarious birds native to the Old World |
common starling
Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
roseolored starling
roseolored pastor
Pastor sturnus
Pastor roseus | glossy black bird with pink back and abdomen, chiefly Asian |
Asian crocodile
Crocodylus porosus | estuarine crocodile of eastern Asia and Pacific islands |
| Asian coral snake | of India |
| Asian horseshoe crab | horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia |
| Asian black grouse Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi | a black grouse of western Asia |
pied-billed grebe
Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
Asian longhorned beetle
Anoplophora glabripennis | a beetle from China that has been found in the United States and is a threat to hardwood trees, lives inside the tree, no natural predators in the United States |
Asian tiger mosquito
Aedes albopictus | striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean, potential carrier of serious diseases |
| pied lemming | North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged |
| Asian wild ox | genus of Asiatic wild oxen |
barramundi
giant perch
giant seaperch
Asian seabass
white seabass
Lates calcarifer | a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities, lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats |
| pied-a-terre | lodging for occasional or secondary use, they bought a pied-a-terre in London |
| shamanism Asian shamanism | an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN | an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism |
Asian country
Asian nation | any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent |
| Asian Russia | the Russia that is part of Asia |
Pied Piper
Pied Piper of Hamelin | the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning |
Asian
Asiatic | a native or inhabitant of Asia |
| Asian American | an American who is of Asian descent |
| pied piper | a leader who entices people to follow (especially to their doom) |
Asian influenza
Asiatic flu | influenza caused by the Asian virus that was first isolated in |
s motley
calico
multicolor
multi-color
multicolour
multi-colour
multicolored
multi-colored
multicoloured
multi-coloured
painted
particolored
particoloured
piebald
pied
varicolored
varicoloured | having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly, a jester dressed in motley, the painted desert, a particolored dress, a piebald horse, pied daisies |
| Afro-Asian | of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples, Afro-Asian population |
Asian
Asiatic | of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture, Asian countries |