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owl owl
owl common name for nocturnal birds of prey found on all continents. Owls superficially resemble short-necked hawks, except that their eyes are directed forward and are surrounded by disks of radiating feathers. This peculiarity lends them an appearance of studious intelligence, and the owl has... Read more
sea urchin sea urchin
sea urchin spherical-shaped echinoderm with movable spines covering the body. The body wall is a firm, globose shell, or test, made of fused skeletal plates and marked by regularly arranged tubercles to which the movable spines are attached. Five rows of the skeletal plates are pierced by pores for... Read more
digger digger
digger A person who digs. In the 17th century, the Diggers were a group of radical dissenters formed in England in 1649 as an offshoot of the Levellers, believing in a form of agrarian communism in which common land would be made available to the poor; they first asserted their principles at St... Read more
ovenbird ovenbird
ovenbird common name for a member of the family Furnariidae, primitive passerine birds, which build elaborate, domed nests of clay or dig tunnels in the ground to lay their eggs. Ovenbirds are most common in South America, where most are forest dwellers, although a few species are found on the... Read more
Anne Tyler Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler 1941-, American novelist, b. Minneapolis. Often set in the American South and frequently in and around Baltimore, Md., her fiction, which is marked by wit and perception, portrays vivid characters involved in ordinary human life, particularly family relationships. Among her novels are A... Read more
cottontail rabbit cottontail rabbit
cottontail rabbit animal of the order Lagomorpha, which includes the hares and rabbits, except for the domestic, or European, rabbit , which is in a separate species. Members of the genus Sylvilagus, cottontails have large ears and short legs and move with a scurrying or scampering gait. Unlike... Read more
Pilosa Pilosa
Edentata (infraclass Eutheria, cohort Unguiculata) An order that comprises two suborders, Palaeanodonta (of ancestral forms), and Xenarthra (the S. American ant-eaters, armadillos, and sloths). The teeth are reduced in number, have a simple peg-like form, and lack enamel; in the ant-eaters they are... Read more
Treasure Treasure
654. Treasure Ali Baba uses magic to find thieves’ storehouse of booty. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”] Comstock Lode richest silver vein in world. [Amer. Hist.: Flexner, 177] Dantés, Edmond digs up the treasure revealed to him by a... Read more
Icknield Way Icknield Way
Icknield Way. A trackway which runs from the central Thames, through the Chilterns, and northwards to the Wash near Hunstanton. Though claims are made for a prehistoric origin, it is doubtful that such long-distance trackways existed, at least as a single entity, until the Iron Age at the earliest.... Read more

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