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CHICKS |
Young birds |
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FLEDGLINGS |
Young birds |
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DUCKLINGS |
Young birds |
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NESTLINGS |
Very young birds |
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CYGNET |
Young birds sound like seals |
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CYGNETS |
Young birds sound like seals |
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NEOSSOLOGY |
The study of young birds. |
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GAPE |
Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape. |
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POUT |
The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. |
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FLOCCUS |
A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds. |
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DASYPAEDES |
Those birds whose young are covered with down when
hatched. |
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GYMNOPAEDIC |
Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopaedic;
-- said of certain birds. |
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BROOD |
The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood
of chickens. |
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PSILOPAEDIC |
Having down upon the pterylae only; -- said of the
young of certain birds. |
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PSILOPAEDES |
Birds whose young at first have down on the
pterylae only; -- called also Gymnopaedes. |
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PRAECOCES |
A division of birds including those whose young are
able to run about when first hatched. |
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PTILOPAEDIC |
Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered
with down; dasypaedic; -- said of the young of certain birds. |
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HATCH |
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the
egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. |
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COVEY |
A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of
young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of
game; as, a covey of partridges. |
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THE GAPES |
A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with
much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus
trachealis), in the ... |
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ALTRICES |
Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young
are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require
the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces. |
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REPTILIA |
... usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two
auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as
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TEGUEXIN |
...izes. It feeds upon fruits, insects,
reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species
Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin. ... |
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SPARROW |
... familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its
fecundity. See House sparrow, under House. ... |