Ant bird
() See Ant bird, under Ant, n. |
Baltimore bird
() Alt. of Baltimore oriole |
Bird
(n.) Orig., a chicken |
Bird
(n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves. |
Bird
(n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird. |
Bird
(n.) Fig.: A girl |
Bird
(v. i.) To catch or shoot birds. |
Bird
(v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder |
Bird cage
(n.) Alt. of Birdcage |
Bird cherry
() A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries. |
Bird-eyed
(a.) Quick-sighted |
Bird fancier
() One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds. |
Bird fancier
() One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages. |
Bird of paradise
() The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers. |
Bird pepper
() A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers. |
Bird's-beak
(n.) A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak. |
Bird's-eye
(a.) Seen from above, as if by a flying bird |
Bird's-eye
(a.) Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes |
Bird's-eye
(n.) A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc. |
Bird's-eye maple
() See under Maple. |
Bird's-foot
(n.) A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. |
Bird's-mouth
(n.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate |
Bird's nest
(n.) Alt. of Bird's-nest |
Bird's-nest
(n.) The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young. |
Bird's-nest
(n.) The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups. |
Bird's-nest
(n.) An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.) |
Bird's-nesting
(n.) Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents. |
Bird's-tongue
(n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). |
Bird-witted
(a.) Flighty |
Bower bird
() An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects |
Canary bird
() A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch. |
Chipping bird
() The chippy. |
Devil bird
(n.) A small water bird. See Dabchick. |
Egg-bird
(n.) A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaethon flavirostris. |
Frigate
(n.) Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them. |
Frigate
(n.) Any small vessel on the water. |
Frigate-built
(a.) Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle. |
Galley-bird
(n.) The European green woodpecker |
Genus
(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus
(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Huia bird
() A New Zealand starling (Heteralocha acutirostris), remarkable for the great difference in the form and length of the bill in the two sexes, that of the male being sharp and straight, that of the female much longer and strongly curved. |
Ling-bird
(n.) The European meadow pipit |
Lyre bird
() Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail. |
Mallee bird
() The leipoa. See Leipoa. |
Mino bird
() An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words. |
Peabody bird
() An American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) having a conspicuous white throat. The name is imitative of its note. Called also White-throated sparrow. |
Qua-bird
(n.) The American night heron. See under Night. |
Sea bird
() Any swimming bird frequenting the sea |
Water bird
() Any aquatic bird |
Weet-bird
(n.) The wryneck |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter
genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
| bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter
genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium
genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium
genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
| genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
| genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
| genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
| genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas
genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas
genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter
genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas
genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
| genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides
genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium
genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella
genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
| genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
| genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
| genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia
Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
| genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
| genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
| genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
| genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
| genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
| genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium
genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus
genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
| genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
| genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
| genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta
genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
| genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
| genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |
| genus Leptospira | very slender aerobic spirochetes, free-living or parasitic in mammals |
| protoctist genus | any genus of Protoctista |
| genus Amoeba | protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water |
Endamoeba
genus Endamoeba | the type genus of the family Endamoebidae |
| genus Globigerina | type genus of the family Globigerinidae |
| genus Arcella | type genus of the Arcellidae |
| genus Difflugia | genus of protozoans related to ameba |