Word Meanings - SUNBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines).

• Smalls
  See Small, n., 2, 3.
• BIRDSMOUTH
  An interior acrow's-foot in the United States.
• SINGLESURFACED
  Having one surface; -- said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.
• Coloradoite
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• Externalize
  To make external; to manifest by outward form.
• Numerous
  Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army.
• Singling
  of Single
• Singster
  A songstress.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• 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
• SINGLETAX
  A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively h
• Colorate
  Colored.
• Externally
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• Oscines
  Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.
• Single-acting
  Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• Singular
  Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
• Smally
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.
• BIRDSNESTING
  Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.
• African
  Of or pertaining to Africa.
• SINGSING
  The kob.

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