Ant bird
() See Ant bird, under Ant, n. |
Ballooning spider
() A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft. |
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. |
Eating
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eat |
Eating
(n.) The act of tasking food |
Eating
(n.) Something fit to be eaten |
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. |
Galley-bird
(n.) The European green woodpecker |
Heart-eating
(a.) Preying on the heart. |
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. |
Plant-eating
(a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants |
Qua-bird
(n.) The American night heron. See under Night. |
Sea bird
() Any swimming bird frequenting the sea |
Sea spider
() Any maioid crab |
eating
feeding | the act of consuming food |
great white shark
white shark
man-eater
man-eating shark
Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
| bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
dickeybird
dickey-bird
dickybird
dicky-bird | small bird, adults talking to children sometimes use these words to refer to small birds |
nestling
baby bird | young bird not yet fledged |
| bird family | a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
| bird genus | a genus of birds |
| night bird | any bird associated with night: owl, nightingale, nighthawk, etc |
| bird of passage | any bird that migrates seasonally |
ratite
ratite bird
flightless bird | flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, rheas, kiwis, elephant birds |
carinate
carinate bird
flying bird | birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles |
elephant bird
aepyornis | huge (to ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar |
Insessores
order Insessores
perching bird
percher | a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches), this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists |
passerine
passeriform bird | perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch, most are songbirds, hatchlings are helpless |
| nonpasserine bird | chiefly arboreal birds especially of the order Coraciiformes |
oscine
oscine bird | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus |
canary
canary bird | any of several small Old World finches |
indigo bunting
indigo finch
indigo bird
Passerina cyanea | small deep blue North American bunting |
whydah
whidah
widow bird | mostly black African weaverbird |
scrubbird
scrub-bird
scrub bird | small fastunning Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub |
New World flycatcher
flycatcher tyrant flycatcher
tyrant bird | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
phoebe
phoebe bird
Sayornis phoebe | small dunolored North American flycatcher |
umbrella bird
Cephalopterus ornatus | black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle |
antbird
ant bird | any of various dullolored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms |
sedge warbler
sedge bird
sedge wren reedbird Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa |
myrtle warbler
myrtle bird
Dendroica coronata | similar to Audubon's warbler |
| bird of paradise | any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area |
Baltimore oriole
Baltimore bird
hangbird
firebird Icterus galbula galbula | eastern subspecies of northern oriole |
| fig-bird | greenish-yellow Australian oriole feeding chiefly on figs and other fruits |
myna
mynah
mina
minah
myna bird
mynah bird | tropical Asian starlings |
| corvine bird | birds of the crow family |
rifleman bird
Acanthisitta chloris | small green-and-bronze bird |
satin bowerbird
satin bird
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus | of southeast Australia, male is glossy violet blue, female is light grey-green |
bird of prey
raptor
raptorial bird | any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals |
eagle
bird of Jove | any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight |
| young bird | a bird that is still young |
secretary bird
Sagittarius serpentarius | large long-legged African bird of prey that feeds on reptiles |
owl
bird of Minerva
bird of night
hooter | nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes |
theropod
theropod dinosaur
bird-footed dinosaur | any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs |
| spider | predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body, they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey |
| orb-weaving spider | a spider that spins a circular (or near circular) web |
black and gold garden spider
Argiope aurantia | a widely distributed North American garden spider |
barn spider
Araneus cavaticus | an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily, the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book `Charlotte's Web' |
garden spider
Aranea diademata | a spider common in European gardens |
comb-footed spider
theridiid | spider having a comb-like row of bristles on each hind foot |
wolf spider
hunting spider | ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web |
European wolf spider
tarantula Lycosa tarentula | large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) |
| trap-door spider | American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid |
spider mite
tetranychid | web-spinning mite that attacks garden plants and fruit trees |
red spider
red spider mite
Panonychus ulmi | small web-spinning mite, a serious orchard pest |