Word Meanings - CULTIROSTRES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.

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• HERONSHAW
  A heron.
• WADDYWOOD
  An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies.
• CRANE
  A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. Note: The common European crane is Grus cinerea. The sand-hill crane and the whooping crane are large American species.
• WADMOL
  A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• WADDIE
  See WADDY
• STORK
  Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidæ, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork
• WADER
  Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wades.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• STORK-BILLED
  Having a bill like that of the stork.
• WADDLE
  To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her
• WAD
  Woad.
• WADING
  a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. See Wader, 2.
• WADDLINGLY
  In a waddling manner.
• WADSET
  A kind of pledge or mortgage.
• CRANE'S-BILL
  The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.
• WAD; WADD
  An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. Plumbago, or black lead.
• HERONSEW
  A heronshaw. Chaucer.
• HERONER
  A hawk used in hunting the heron. "Heroner and falcon." Chaucer.
• WADDING
  1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made. 2. Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• CRAN; CRANE
  A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. H. Miller.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• HOWADJI
  1. A traveler. 2. A merchant; -- so called in the East because merchants were formerly the chief travelers.
• ACHERONTIC
  Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
• ACHERON
  A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.
• TWADDY
  Idle trifling; twaddle.
• SWADDLER
  A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.