walk walking | the act of traveling by foot, walking is a healthy form of exercise |
funambulism tightrope walking | walking on a tightrope or slack rope |
power walking | a form of cardiopulmonary exercise consisting of rapid walking accompanied by vigorous swinging of the arms |
Carduelinae subfamily Carduelinae | used in some classifications for a subgroup of finches |
Emberizidae subfamily Emberizidae subfamily Emberizinae | buntings and some New World sparrows |
Turdinae subfamily Turdinae | alternative classification for the thrushes |
Sylviinae subfamily Sylviinae | alternative classification for the Old World warblers |
Garrulinae subfamily Garrulinae | subfamily of the crow family: jays |
Malaconotinae subfamily Malaconotinae | an African bush shrikes |
leaf-nosed snake | any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America |
Pythoninae subfamily Pythoninae | Old World boas: pythons, in some classifications considered a separate family from Boidae |
Perdicidae subfamily Perdicidae Perdicinae subfamily Perdicinae | Old World partridges |
Numididae subfamily Numididae Numidinae subfamily Numidinae | guinea fowl and related birds of Africa and Madagascar |
Loriinae subfamily Loriinae | lories |
Merginae subfamily Merginae | mergansers and closely related diving birds |
Anserinae subfamily Anserinae | used in some classifications for the swans |
Potoroinae subfamily Potoroinae | rat kangaroos |
Sterninae subfamily Sterninae | terns |
leafnose bat leaf-nosed bat | bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose, especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae |
leaf beetle chrysomelid | brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves, larvae infest roots and stems |
Melolonthidae subfamily Melolonthidae | considered a separate family in some classification systems |
Cetoniidae subfamily Cetoniidae | considered a separate family in some classification systems |
dipterous insect two-winged insects dipteran dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
leaf miner leaf-miner | any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae |
birch leaf miner Fenusa pusilla | small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States, larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation |
Dorylinae subfamily Dorylinae | army ants |
walking stick walkingstick stick insect | any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies |
walking leaf leaf insect | tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body, common in southern Asia and the East Indies |
leaf bug plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug four-lined leaf bug Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
leaf-footed bug leaf-foot bug | large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs |
pine leaf aphid Pineus pinifoliae | a variety of adelgid |
leaf roller leafoller | moth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk |
Hydromyinae subfamily Hydromyinae | water rats of Australia and New Guinea |
Gerbillinae subfamily Gerbillinae | gerbils |
Petauristidae subfamily Petauristidae | Old World flying squirrels |
Tennessee walker Tennessee walking horse Walking horse Plantation walking horse | a horse marked by stamina and trained to move at a fast running walk |
Bovinae subfamily Bovinae | term not used technically, essentially coextensive with genus Bos: cattle, buffalo, and sometimes includes kudu |
Lutrinae subfamily Lutrinae | subdivision not used in some classifications: otters |
Mephitinae subfamily Mephitinae | subdivision not used in some classifications: skunks |
Melinae subfamily Melinae | subdivision not used in some classifications: badgers |
Bassariscidae subfamily Bassariscidae | in some classifications considered a separate family |
Triglinae subfamily Triglinae | in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising searobins having ordinary scales and no barbels (true searobins) |
Peristediinae subfamily Peristediinae | in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising the armored searobins |
drop-leaf | a hinged leaf on a table that can be raised and supported by a bracket |
drop-leaf table | a table that has a drop-leaf to enlarge its surface |
fig leaf | a covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful |
gold leaf | a very thin form of gold foil |
leaf | hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) |
leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |