Word Meanings - PICARIAE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

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• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• HUMMER
  A humming bird. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• HUMMOCKY
  Abounding in hummocks.
• HUMMOCKING
  The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.
• EXTENSIVELY
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• HUMMING
  A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum. Hummingale, lively or strong ale. Dryden. -- Humming bird , any bird of the family Trochilidæ, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They
• EXTENSIVENESS
  The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
• EXTENSIVE
  1. Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness. 2. Capable of being extended.
• HUMMEL
  To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• HUMMOCK
  1. A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface. 2. A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field. 3. Timbered land. See Hammock.
• BIRDSEED
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• HUMMELER
  One who, or a machine which, hummels.
• THUMMIE
  The chiff-chaff.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• THUMMIM
  A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• COEXTENSIVE
  Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. Sir W. Hamilton. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, n.