| finch | any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds |
pine siskin
pine finch
Spinus pinus | small finch of North American coniferous forests |
house finch
linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
purple finch
Carpodacus purpureus | North American finch having a raspberryed head and breast and rump |
vesper sparrow
grass finch Pooecetes gramineus | common North American finch noted for its evening song |
indigo bunting
indigo finch
indigo bird
Passerina cyanea | small deep blue North American bunting |
weaver
weaverbird
weaver finch | finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests |
Java sparrow
Java finch
ricebird Padda oryzivora | small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields |
| grassfinch grass finch | usually brightlyolored Australian weaverbirds, often kept as cage birds |
zebra finch
Poephila castanotis | small Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's |
long-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
hadrosaur
hadrosaurus
duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
| parrot | usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds |
poll
poll parrot | a tame parrot |
pink cockatoo
Kakatoe leadbeateri | white Australian cockatoo with roseate tinged plumage |
cockateel
cockatiel
cockatoo parrot
Nymphicus hollandicus | small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head |
black-billed cuckoo
Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
ivorybill
ivory-billed woodpecker
Campephilus principalis | large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill, nearly extinct |
platypus
duckbill duckbilled platypus
duck-billed platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
boatbill
boat-billed heron
broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
razorbill
razor-billed auk
Alca torda | black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill |
thick-billed murre
Uria lomvia | a variety of murre |
pied-billed grebe
Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
pink bollworm
Gelechia gossypiella | larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia, feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls |
| pink | a light shade of red |
solferino
purplish pink | a pink dye that was discovered in , the year a battle was fought at Solferino |
yellowish pink
apricot
peach
salmon pink | a shade of pink tinged with yellow |
dismissal
dismission
pink slip | official notice that you have been fired from your job |
blush wine
pink wine
rose
rose wine | pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began |
| pink lady | a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice |
| parrot | a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated |
pinko
pink | a person with mildly leftist political views |
pink calla
Zantedeschia rehmanii | calla having a roseolored spathe |
Caryophyllaceae
family Caryophyllaceae
carnation family
pink family | large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes) |
pink
garden pink | any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers |
carnation
clove pink
gillyflower Dianthus caryophyllus | Eurasian plant with pink to purpleed spice-scented usually double flowers, widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors |
china pink
rainbow pink
Dianthus chinensis | Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye, usually raised as an annual |
Japanese pink
Dianthus chinensis heddewigii | a flowering variety of China pink distinguished by jagged-edged petals |
maiden pink
Dianthus deltoides | low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with a single pale pink flower with a crimson center |
cheddar pink
Diangus gratianopolitanus | mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers |
button pink
Dianthus latifolius | much-branched pink with flowers in clusters, closely related to sweet William |
cottage pink
grass pink Dianthus plumarius | European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers |
| fringed pink Dianthus supurbus | Eurasian perennial pink having fragrant lilac or rose flowers with deeply fringed margins |
mullein pink
rose campion
gardener's delight
dusty miller Lychnis coronaria | an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers |
soapwort
hedge pink
bouncing Bet
bouncing Bess
Saponaria officinalis | plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised |
| wild pink Silene caroliniana | perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters |
fire pink
Silene virginica | perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals |
beach sand verbena
pink sand verbena
Abronia umbellata | prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers, found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California |
rock pink
Talinum calycinum | pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States |