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.

• 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.
• Commonweal
  Commonwealth.
• Throatwort
  A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.
• COLORADOBEETLE
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Pot
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.

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