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• Bird-Man — is the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe. Both have similar powers and appearance, and both appeared primarily as a member of the villain team the Ani Men.Henry HawkSuperherobox| caption= comic color=background:#ff8080… …   Wikipedia

• bird|man — «BURD MAN, muhn», noun, plural men. 1. Informal. = aviator: (Cf. ↑aviator) »Getting to airports a good deal…I decided to become an intrepid birdman (New Yorker). 2. a person who catches, sells, or trains birds, as a fowler. 3. = ornithologist.… …   Useful english dictionary

• Bird-Man — Fallschirmspringer mit einem Wingsuit Wingsuit im Flug Ein Wingsuit ist ein Flügelanzug für Fallschirmspringer mit Flächen aus Stoff zwischen den Armen und Beinen, um die vertikale Fallgeschwindigkeit auf bis zu 80 km/h z …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Bird Man — Mike Barnett (basketball player) …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

• man-of-war bird — n. (Zo[ o]l.), The frigate bird, a long billed warm water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail; also applied to the skua gulls, and to the wandering albatross. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• man-o'-warbird — man o war bird (măn ə wôrʹ) n. See frigate bird. * * * …   Universalium

• Man-of-war's man — Man of war Man of war , n; pl. {Men of war}. 1. A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war. [WordNet sense 1] Syn: ship of the line. [1913 Webster] 2. The {Portuguese man of war}. Syn: Syn. ,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Man-of-war — n; pl. {Men of war}. 1. A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war. [WordNet sense 1] Syn: ship of the line. [1913 Webster] 2. The {Portuguese man of war}. Syn: Syn. , jellyfish. [WordNet 1.5] {Ma …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Man-of-war hawk — Man of war Man of war , n; pl. {Men of war}. 1. A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war. [WordNet sense 1] Syn: ship of the line. [1913 Webster] 2. The {Portuguese man of war}. Syn: Syn. ,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …   Universalium