fantan sevens
parliament | a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens, you win if you are the first to use all your cards |
European bream
Abramis brama | European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales, of little value as food |
blackbird merl
merle
ouzel ousel European blackbird
Turdus merula | common black European thrush |
common European jay
Garullus garullus | fawnolored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings |
European magpie
Pica pica | a common magpie of Eurasia |
European creeper
Certhia familiaris | common European brown-and-buff tree creeper with downurved bill |
European nuthatch
Sitta europaea | a kind of nuthatch |
European shrike
Lanius excubitor | a common European butcherbird |
European water ouzel
Cinclus aquaticus | a water ouzel of Europe |
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 |
European fire salamander
Salamandra salamandra | a kind of European salamander |
European toad
Bufo bufo | common toad of Europe |
European tortoise
Testudo graeca | small land tortoise of southern Europe |
European wolf spider
tarantula Lycosa tarentula | large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) |
European black grouse
heathfowl
Lyrurus tetrix | large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail |
European cuckoo
Cuculus canorus | common cuckoo of Europe having a distinctive two-note call, lays eggs in the nests of other birds |
European roller
Coracias garrulus | common European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back |
European swift
Apus apus | common European bird with a shrieking call that nests chiefly about eaves of buildings or on cliffs |
European goatsucker
European nightjar
Caprimulgus europaeus | Old World goatsucker |
European water shrew
Neomys fodiens | widely distributed Old World water shrew |
European spider crab
king crab Maja squinado | a large spider crab of Europe |
European lobster
Homarus vulgaris | lobster of Atlantic coast of Europe |
European bittern
Botaurus stellaris | a kind of bittern |
European gallinule
Porphyrio porphyrio | purple gallinule of southern Europe |
European sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos | a variety of sandpiper |
European curlew
Numenius arquata | common Eurasian curlew |
European wildcat
catamountain
Felis silvestris | bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat |
serotine
European brown bat
Eptesicus serotinus | common brown bat of Europe |
European house cricket
Acheta domestica | lives in human dwellings, naturalized in parts of America |
common European earwig
Forficula auricularia | sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs |
corn borer European corn borer moth
corn borer moth
Pyrausta nubilalis | native to Europe, in America the larvae bore into the stem and crown of corn and other plants |
European rabbit
Old World rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus | common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere, widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs, young are born naked and helpless |
European hare
Lepus europaeus | large hare introduced in North America, does not turn white in winter |
European wood mouse
Apodemus sylvaticus | nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
European lemming
Lemmus lemmus | notable for mass migrations even into the sea where many drown |
elk
European elk
moose
Alces alces | large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male, called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America |
European catfish
sheatfish
Silurus glanis | large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe |
sparling
European smelt
Osmerus eperlanus | the common smelt of Europe |
European perch
Perca fluviatilis | a perch native to Europe |
European sea bream
Pagellus centrodontus | food fish of European coastal waters |
European flatfish
Platichthys flesus | important food fish of Europe |
European sole
Solea solea | highly valued as food |
| structural member | support that is a constituent part of any structure or building |
penis
phallus
member | the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism) |
extremity
appendage
member | an external body part that projects from the body, it is important to keep the extremities warm |
uninominal system
uninominal voting system
single-member system
scrutin uninomial system
scrutin uninominal voting system | based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district |
Indo-European
Indo-European language
Indo-Hittite | the family of languages that by BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia |
Proto-Indo European
PIE | a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages |
bilberry
whortleberry
European blueberry | blue-black berries similar to American blueberries |
| European lobster | similar to but smaller than American lobsters |