habits (noun)
51Phasmatodea — noun in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects • Syn: ↑Phasmida, ↑order Phasmida, ↑order Phasmatodea • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Insecta, ↑ …
52Scarabaeidae — noun scarab or dung beetles • Syn: ↑family Scarabaeidae • Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family • Member Holonyms: ↑Lamellicornia, ↑superfamily Lamellicornia • Member Meronyms …
53upland plover — noun large plover like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands • Syn: ↑upland sandpiper, ↑Bartramian sandpiper, ↑Bartramia longicauda • Hypernyms: ↑sandpiper • Member Holonyms: ↑Bartramia, ↑ …
54woodcreeper — noun any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers • Syn: ↑woodhewer, ↑wood creeper, ↑tree creeper • Hypernyms: ↑tyrannid • Member Holonyms:… …
55cuckoo shrike — noun : any of numerous Old World birds somewhat like flycatchers in habits constituting the family Campephagidae but formerly often included in the family Laniidae and differing from the true shrikes especially in their undulating flight… …
56jumping hare — noun Etymology: translation of Afrikaans springhaas, from Dutch springen to jump + haas hare : a sciuromorph rodent (Pedetes cafer) of southern and eastern Africa that resembles a kangaroo in form, that is about two feet long, and that is tawny… …
57onion fly — noun 1. : a dipterous insect of the family Anthomyiidae whose larva feeds on onion bulbs; especially : an originally European insect (Hylemya antiqua) now widely distributed in America 2. : an insect (Tritoxa flexa) of the family Otitidae with… …
58snow flea — noun : a small black leaping springtail (Achorutes nivicolus) often found in early spring on the snow in vast numbers in the eastern United States; broadly : any of several collembolans with similar habits * * * snow flea noun A springtail living …
59bestiary — noun (plural aries) Etymology: Medieval Latin bestiarium, from Latin, neuter of bestiarius of beasts, from bestia Date: 1840 1. a medieval allegorical or moralizing work on the appearance and habits of real or imaginary animals 2 …
60convergence — noun Date: 1713 1. the act of converging and especially moving toward union or uniformity; especially coordinated movement of the two eyes so that the image of a single point is formed on corresponding retinal areas 2. the state or property of… …
