noun

1. (Music), (Obsolete): One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
2. (Zoí¶logy): A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

noun Plural (English): Accipiters<br>
Plural (Latin): Accipitres

1. (Zoí¶logy): A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
   
2. (Surgery): A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk

noun

1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike - Lowell

noun

1. Military: A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs
2. An assistant.
3. A member of the Leptoptilos genus of African storks, also known as marabou.

adjective (no (compar) or (superl))

1. The noun used as a modifier (e.g. adjutant officer).

noun

1. The marabou

noun

1. Alternative form of eyrie.
   
2. A Local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

initialism

1. Alpha Linolenic Acid
   
2. American Library Association
   
3. Acacia Leadership Academy

noun (pl=albatross or albatrosses)

1. Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
2. (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole

noun

1. A species of eagle native to North America and notable for the white plumage on its head.

noun

1. (zoology) a species of small falcon, Falco sparverius; a kestrel

adjective

1. (zoology) Pertaining to ducks; ducklike.

noun

1. (context, birds) A bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.

adjective

1. Pertaining to geese.

noun

1. Any of various drab-colored South American birds of the order Thamnophilidae that feed on ants.

noun

1. several species of bird from the antbird family.

proper noun

1. (greekmyth) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock"s tail. He was a servant of the greek goddess Hera.

noun

1. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.

noun

1. The little finger, so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
2. Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
3. Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.
4. Received by the ear; known by report.
5. (anatomy) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.

noun (wikipedia, Avians)

1. A bird.
2. A bird-like or flying creature.

adjective

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to, birds, bird-like or flying creatures.

noun

1. rearing and care of birds.

noun

1. The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

noun

1. Any of various shore birds of the genus Recurvirostra that have a long slender upcurved bill, long legs, and webbed feet.

noun (plural: axillae)

1. The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
   
2. The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

noun (axillars, pl2=axillaries)

1. (plural, pl.) feather, Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary lymph node, artery, or nerve.
2. Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil.

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
2. Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil.