Word Meanings - LYREBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.
- Commonweal
Commonwealth. - Throatwort
A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla. - Generalty
Generality. - CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
See Calisthenic, Calisthenics. - Haversian
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. - SPREADEAGLED
1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully. - Brownian
Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. - Inhabitress
A female inhabitant. - THREESCORE
Thrice twenty; sixty. - Caller
One who calls. - Southeastern
Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly. - Callisthenics
See Calisthenic, Calisthenics. - Southron
An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman. - Colorable
Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice. - Spread-eagle
Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. - Commonable
Held in common. - Threepenny
Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean. - Commonwealth
A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. - Throaty
Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice.
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