English > bird: 6 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. |
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| Category of | chirpy | (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp |
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| Member of | Aves, class Aves | (ornithology) the class of birds |
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| flock | A group of birds |
| Parts | air sac | Any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds |
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| beak, bill, neb, nib, pecker | horny projecting mouth of a bird |
| bird, fowl | The flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food |
| bird's foot | The foot of a bird |
| feather, plume, plumage | The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds |
| furcula | A forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds |
| hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump | The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks |
| pennon, pinion | wing of a bird |
| syrinx | The vocal organ of a bird |
| uropygial gland, preen gland | oil-secreting gland situated at the base of the tail in most birds |
| uropygium | Posterior part of a bird's body from which the tail feathers grow |
| wing | A movable organ for flying (one of a pair) |
| Narrower | Ibero-mesornis | sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Cretaceous period having a vestigial tail |
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| Sinornis | sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Jurassic period to the Cretaceous period having a keeled breastbone and vestigial tail |
| apodiform bird | nonpasserine bird having long wings and weak feet |
| aquatic bird | wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water |
| archaeopteryx, archeopteryx, Archaeopteryx lithographica | Extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones |
| archaeornis | Extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered / feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing |
| bird of passage | Any bird that migrates seasonally |
| bird of prey, raptor, raptorial bird | Any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals |
| caprimulgiform bird | long-winged nonpasserine birds |
| carinate, carinate bird, flying bird | birds having keeled breastbones for attachment / attachment of flight muscles |
| cock | adult male bird |
| coraciiform bird | chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes |
| cuculiform bird | birds having zygodactyl feet (except for the touracos) |
| dickeybird, dickey-bird, dickybird, dicky-bird | small bird |
| gallinaceous bird, gallinacean | Heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds |
| hen | adult female bird |
| nester | A bird that has built (or is building) a nest |
| night bird | Any bird associated with night |
| nonpasserine bird | chiefly arboreal birds especially of the order Coraciiformes |
| parrot | usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds |
| passerine, passeriform bird | perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch |
| piciform bird | Any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood |
| protoavis | Most primitive avian type known |
| ratite, ratite bird, flightless bird | Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment / attachment of flight muscles |
| trogon | forest / forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails |
| twitterer | A bird that twitters |
| Broader | vertebrate, craniate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
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| Spanish | ave, aves, pájaro |
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| Catalan | au, ocell |
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| Adjectives | avian | pertaining to or characteristic of birds |
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| Verbs | bird | watch and study birds in their natural habitat |
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