Shed+feathers
21mew — I. n. Gull, sea mew, cob, sea cob. II. v. a. 1. Confine, encase, coop, imprison, shut up, enclose. 2. Shed (feathers), moult, cast, change …
22mew — I. /mju / (say myooh) noun 1. the sound a cat makes. –verb (i) 2. to make this sound. {imitative} II. /mju / (say myooh) noun a seagull, especially the common gull, Larus canus, of Europe. {Middle English mewe, Old English mǣw} III. /mju / (say… …
23moult — is the spelling in BrE for the verb meaning ‘to shed feathers or hair etc.’ and for the corresponding noun. In AmE the spelling is molt …
24Shedding — Shed Shed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shedding}.] [OE. scheden, sch?den, to pour, to part, AS. sc[=a]dan, sce[ a]dan, to pert, to separate; akin to OS. sk??an, OFries. sk?tha, G. scheiden, OHG. sceidan, Goth. skaidan, and… …
25integument — /in teg yeuh meuhnt/, n. 1. a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind. 2. any covering, coating, enclosure, etc. [1605 15; < L integumentum a covering. See IN 2, TEGUMENT] Syn. 1. cortex, involucre, involucrum. * * * Covering of the body,… …
26bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …
27Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a …
28pelecaniform — [pel΄ ə kan′ə fôrm΄] adj. of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants * * * ▪ bird Introduction any of the relatively large and… …
29Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… …
30Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …
