Word Meanings - NOTORNIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.

• Notornis
  A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is
• Allineation
  Alt. of Alineation
• Supposition
  The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
• First-hand
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
• BIRDSNESTBIRDSNEST
  The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups. Note: The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of al
• Fossilization
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• Foundling
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Live-forever
  A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
• Liveries
  of Livery
• Quite
  See Quit.
• Allision
  The act of dashing against, or striking upon.
• Suppositional
  Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.
• Firstling
  The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.
• BIRDSNESTING
  Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.
• Fossilized
  of Fossilize
• Foundress
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Livelihed
  See Livelihood.
• Livery
  The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

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