Definition of bird

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Bird (n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2)..

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Endaspidean :: Endaspidean (a.) Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.
Avifauna :: Avifauna (n.) The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region..
Podotheca :: Podotheca (n.) The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.
Leipoa :: Leipoa (n.) A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant..
Seta :: Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.
Buzzard :: Buzzard (n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera..
Mute :: Mute (v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
Anhima :: Anhima (n.) A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.
Whydah Finch :: Whydah finch () The whidah bird.
Down :: Down (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets..
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird..
Diatryma :: Diatryma (n.) An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich..
Moult :: Moult (v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird..
Stooper :: Stoop (n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Lobe :: Lobe (n.) A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot..
Spinetail :: Spinetail (n.) Any one of several species of South American and Central American clamatorial birds belonging to Synallaxis and allied genera of the family Dendrocolaptidae. They are allied to the ovenbirds.
Articulary :: Articulary (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes..
Boatbill :: Boatbill (n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..
Guttatrap :: Guttatrap (n.) The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality..
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