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Main Entry:	bird [burd] Show IPA/bɜrd/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	flying animal
Synonyms:	feathered creature, fowl, game

Main Entry:	missile
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	projectile weapon
Synonyms:	MX, ammunition, arrow, bat, bird*, bolt, bomb, bullet, cartridge, dart, pellet, projectile, rocket, shot, stealth, trajectile
Notes:	a missile is a whole vehicle ready for launching; a rocket is a type of engine that powers a missile

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	plane
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	aircraft
Synonyms:	airbus, airplane, airship, bird*, craft, crate, jet, ship, twin-engine

* = informal/non-formal usage

Example Sentences

Bird comes with all the dressing necessary for your permanent retreat from urban society.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic bird long thought to be extinct and long pursued by.

Whether a bird deserts or stays depends on how it rates its chances elsewhere.

Bird comes with all the dressing necessary for your permanent retreat from urban society.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic bird long thought to be extinct and long pursued by.

Whether a bird deserts or stays depends on how it rates its chances elsewhere.

Glowing bird dung has allowed biologists to learn how bluebirds use natural pathways to migrate.

As humans populate formerly wild regions, they increasingly intersect bird migration patterns.

Forego the tradition and cook the stuffing outside of the bird.

Choose one of these styles for a bird feeder that pleases the eye as well as the birds.

When pigeons fly in flocks, each bird falls behind another with better navigational skill, and the savviest among.

Send us photos of bird habitats in your local park, neighborhood, on your window ledge or fire escape.

At the beginning of the semester they think it is going to be a bit of a bird course-watching movies, no exams, and so forth.

Mostly, these have been aimed at the threat of bird flu.

The elusive recurve-billed bushbird seems to give a hint of a smile in this first photo of the bird ever released to the public.

Mice were trained to identify feces from bird flu-infected ducks by smell.

Smithsonian researchers join an international effort to bring the five-foot-tall bird back from the brink of extinction.

Think big, crisp, and gloriously browned when you want a bird that reigns supreme at the table.

Further bird behavioral changes are another wild card in the bird-strike management equation.

Scientists studying sleep in wild birds recapture a frigate bird only to find that seawater has damaged the sleep logging device.

The bird turns out to have minimal relationship to my research.

The breast of each stuffed bird was adorned with a piece of white silk.

The black-capped vireo is a little bird with a big problem.

Urban bird dwellers change their song over time to help the them be heard over the big city noises.

Panda-friendly forests, one bizarre bird and foxes on junk food.

Pound and brown the everyday bird into a versatile weeknight option.

If the angry bird game used real springs, the greater the angle you shoot at, the lower the speed.

Long ago, when hens' teeth were anything but scarce, there lived a bird by a lake surrounded by lush forest.

Take the bird in the hand and deal with the one in the bush if it jumps into your hand in due course.

Away from politics, he was a bird fancier dedicated to breeding a pure black budgerigar.

One man at the frontline of the bird flu battle disagrees.

She even killed her dentist and his wife after spying on them eating dinner and pulling roasted bird apart with their fingers.

Experts estimate that one-eighth of all bird species, one-fifth of mammal species and one-third of amphibian species are at risk.

Grilling gives the bird a really crisp, brown skin-plus it frees up your oven so you can cook everything else.

The new model is roughly eight times more accurate than previous attempts to unravel complex bird songs.

The bird in the hand was worth even more when bushes were dangerous.

For serious ornithologists, recreational bird watchers, and natural history buffs alike.

People may have a tough time telling one squawking bird from another.

Ohio's location, directly on the migratory path of many bird species, makes it an ideal location for bird watching.

And what's good for a chick is good for a bird of any size.

When pigeons fly in flocks, each bird falls behind another with better navigational skill, and the savviest among them.

And of course a bird has no way of knowing about the.

Plummeting bird populations are seen as evidence that the world is suffering the greatest.

Antibodies against the common flu blunt bird flu's effects on mice, but how to enhance the protection in people is unclear.

Paleontologists have found the bones of a bird inside a feathered dinosaur.

Especially with the dashes of orange bird of paradise adding some contrast.

That's not good news for the spread of bird flu, which experts fear could mutate and be transmitted easily among people.

And swine flu will prove to be far less lethal than bird flu.

For some bird species pair-bonding lasts a lifetime.

Mexico develops trans-continental bird tracking system.

Unless the man turns the fish in the birds throat and then has the bird regurgitate it.

We swing our binoculars around to watch a phalarope, a white bird no bigger than my hand, paddling in tight circles on the water.

Mitra's team wanted to find out what would happen if an isolated bird raised his own colony.

Its feet, however, are hooves and its tail is that of a bird.

Bird species worldwide are in decline-a sign that the planets health is also faltering, according to a new report.

Ultimately, understanding how a bird learns a song might shed some light on how humans learn a language or a skill by imitation.

The fox had won and the cackling goose and many other island-nesting bird species had lost.

Smoking turkey on the grill with wine-infused wood chips gives the bird lots of flavor and provides extra oven space.

If bird flu becomes a pandemic, we're going to need more health-care workers fast.

Half of these students were asked to provide examples of members of a group, for example, naming any type of bird.

Another study published a couple of weeks ago in the same journal brought to light a surprising aspect of bird migration:.

Theories about foraging say that animals should stick with the proverbial bird in the hand, especially when it comes to food.

Once a dump site, it's now home to hundreds of bird species.

Hundreds of bird species are threatened by habitat loss, pollution and climate change.

Each bird can produce about three lots of this special saliva during each mating season.

Hikers can pick up a map and a bird list at the small nature center.

The yellow bird is especially good against wood blocks.

If it does, the shards of eggshell will likely kill your bird.

Five bird and butterfly friendly home gardens plus a visit to a raptor rehabilitation facility.

It occurs to me that each of the bare-root cherries cost me about the same amount of money as a good bird feeder.

When you get hungry enough cooking up that old bird is a fairly simple equation.

Cindy hauled away tons of dirt and created this bird fountain.

Main Entry:	clay pigeon
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	moving target for shooting
Synonyms:	bird, clay disk, skeet

Main Entry:	fowl
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	domesticated bird
Synonyms:	bird, capon, chick, chicken, cock, duck, game, goose, hen, pheasant, rooster, turkey

Main Entry:	lark
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	escapade
Synonyms:	adventure, antic, bird, carousal, dido, frolic, outing, prank, romp, spree

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