Helen Fenton

Ant thrush: Definition and part of speech

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Ant thrush

  1. See Ant bird, under Ant.
  2. One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Anubis: Definition and part of speech

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Anubis

  1. n. An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Anura: Definition and part of speech

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Anura

  1. n. pl. One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.