| huia bird | <zoology> 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. Origin: Native name; so called from its cry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| devil bird | <zoology> A small water bird. See Dabchick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| qua-bird | <zoology> The American night heron. See Night. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| egg-bird | <zoology> A species of tern, especially. The sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaethon flavirostris. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ling-bird | <zoology> The European meadow pipit. Synonym: titling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lyre bird | <ornithology> 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 colour is brown, with rufous colour on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Synonym: lyre pheasant and lyre-tail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mean sea level | <marine biology> A tidal datum: the arithmetic mean of hourly water elevations observed over a specific 19-year cycle. Points on land can be referenced to a mean sea level, in which case the datum assumes zero elevation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| San Miguel sea lion virus | A calicivirus, family Caliciviridae, first isolated from sea lions on San Miguel island off the California coast, which is indistinguishable from the vesicular exanthema of swine virus both biophysically and clinically in terms of the vesicular disease syndrome that it produces in swine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea | <oncogene> An oncogene, identified in bird sarcoma, encoding a receptor tyrosine kinase. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sea acorn | <zoology> An acorn barnacle (Balanus). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea adder | <zoology> The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); called also bismore. The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea amenone | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian. They have the oral disk surrounded by one or more circles of simple tapering tentacles, which are often very numerous, and when expanded somewhat resemble the petals of flowers, with colours varied and often very beautiful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea anemones | Numerous almost invariably solitary polyps of the order actiniaria. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sea ape | <zoology> The thrasher shark. The sea otter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea apple | <botany> The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |