- nidificant
- \\ˈnidəfə̇kənt, (ˈ)nī|dif-\ adjective
Etymology: Latin nidificant-, nidificans, present participle of nidificare: building a nest
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nidificant — adj. [L. nidus, nest; facere, to make] Building a nest … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
nidificant — nid·i·fi·cant … English syllables
aquiline — Synonyms and related words: Roman nosed, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline nosed, avian, avicular, beak nosed, beak shaped, beaked, bill like, bill shaped, billed, birdlike, birdy, clawlike, columbine, crookbilled, crooked, crooknosed,… … Moby Thesaurus
avian — Synonyms and related words: altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avicular, birdlike, birdy, columbine, dovelike, goosy, hawklike, nesting, nidicolous, nidificant, oscine, passerine, psittacine, rasorial … Moby Thesaurus
dovelike — Synonyms and related words: altricial, angelic, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avian, avicular, birdlike, birdy, blameless, broken, chastened, childlike, clear, columbine, domesticated, faultless, gentle, goosy, guiltless, hawklike, housebroken,… … Moby Thesaurus
goosy — Synonyms and related words: allergic, altricial, anaphylactic, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avian, avicular, bashful, birdlike, birdy, columbine, cowardly, delicate, diffident, dovelike, empathetic, empathic, fearful, fearing, fearsome, hawklike … Moby Thesaurus
nesting — Synonyms and related words: abiding, abode, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avian, avicular, birdlike, birdy, cohabitation, columbine, commorancy, dovelike, dwelling, goosy, habitancy, habitation, hawklike, inhabitancy, inhabitation,… … Moby Thesaurus
ABASENI — Arbiae gens. Steph. Η῾χώρα τῶ Α᾿βασηνῶν σμύξνην φέρει, καὶ ὄςςον, καὶ ςθυμίαμα, regio Abasenorum mzrrham sert, et Osson, et tus; qui non intelligit AfricaeAbasenos vel Abissinos, sed Arabiae, a quibus Africani sunt oriundi. Hi porro Abasem… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
MANUCODIATA — apodum genus, quas melius cum Aristotele, Hist. Anim. l. 1. c. 1. κακόποδες, pravi pedes, dicas. Habent enim pedes, sed non idoneos ad gressum, imo, nec ut iis consistant, sed ut haereant: quomodo Plinius capiendus, nec negat, habere pedum usum.… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
MUS — Graece μῦς, Hebr. achbar, h. e. agri comsumptor et vastator (quae tamen appellatio agresti inprimis muri convenit) inter domuum incolas recensetur, Plinio l. 8. c. 57. haud spernendum in ostentis etiam publicis animal. Arrosis Lavinii clypeis… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
