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11jaw — jaw1 jawless, adj. /jaw/, n. 1. either of two bones, the mandible or maxilla, forming the framework of the mouth. 2. the part of the face covering these bones, the mouth, or the mouth parts collectively: My jaw is swollen. 3. jaws, anything… …
12ou — /oh ooh /, n. a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head. [1885 90; < Hawaiian o u] * * * …
13parrotbill — ▪ bird also called crow tit any of several species of small to medium titmouselike birds (bird), mostly brown and gray with soft, loose plumage and distinctive strongly arched, parrotlike bills. They live in brushy grasslands of Central and… …
14perciform — ▪ fish order Introduction any member of the order Perciformes, a group of bony fishes with more than 6,000 species placed in about 150 families. The order is the largest group of fishes in the world today. Perciform fishes occur in… …
15tetraodontiform — ▪ fish order Introduction any member of the order Tetraodontiformes, a group of primarily tropical marine fishes that evolved from the Perciformes (the typical advanced spiny rayed fishes) during the Eocene Period of the Cenozoic Era, about …
16echolalia — Involuntary parrotlike repetition of a word or sentence just spoken by another person. Usually seen with schizophrenia. SYN: echo reaction, echo speech, echophrasia. [echo + G. lalia, a form of speech] * * * echo·la·lia .ek ō lā lē ə n the often… …
17echoic — Synonyms and related words: answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative, conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative, echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic, growling, ideographic,… …
18echoing — Synonyms and related words: answering, antiphonal, battological, booming, confutative, duplicative, echoic, growling, imitative, iterative, lingering, parrotlike, persistent, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative,… …
19imitative — Synonyms and related words: apish, battological, delineatory, depictive, duplicative, echoic, echoing, embodying, emulative, figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, incarnating, iterative, limning, mimetic, mimic, mimish,… …
20iterative — Synonyms and related words: battological, duplicative, echoic, echoing, imitative, parrotlike, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive,… …
