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A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.

Having a straight beak.

A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

Having the beak bent upwards.

Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.

Same as Lamellirostres.

An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

A nobleman who possessed a starosty. [Poland]

A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. [Poland] Brande & C.

One of the Tenuirostres.

Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.

An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.

stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise. Throstle cock, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

One of the plates on the under side of the tail of a serpent.

A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.

The sternal, or under piece, of any one of the uromeres of insects and other arthropods.

A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.

Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.