Birds Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Birds Information and Meaning
See also ANIMALS; COCKS
- anthropoglot
- an animal with a tongue like that of man, as the parrot.
- avicide
- the killing of birds.
- aviculture
- the raising or keeping of birds. —aviculturist, n.
- caliology
- Rare. the study of birds’ nests.
- columbary
- a structure for keeping doves or pigeons; a dovecote or pigeon loft. Also columbarium.
- falconry
- the practice of training and hunting with falcons or hawks.
- heronry
- the breeding place of a colony of herons.
- neossology
- the study of young birds.
- nidification
- the process or instinct of nest-building.
- nidology
- the study of birds’ nests. —nidologist, n.
- oograph
- a device for reproducing the outline of a bird’s egg.
- oology
- the branch of ornithology that collects and studies birds’ eggs. —oologist, n. —oologic, oological, adj.
- oometer
- a device for measuring eggs.
- ooscopy
- observation of the development of an embryo inside an egg by means of an ooscope.
- ornithology
- the branch of zoology that studies birds. —ornithologist, n. —ornithologie, ornithological, adj.
- ornithomancy, ornithoscopy
- the observation of birds, especially in flight, for the purpose of divination.
- ornithomania
- an abnormal love of birds.
- ornithophobia
- an abnormal fear of birds.
- ornithosis
- psittacosis, partieularly in birds other than those of the parrot family.
- ornithotomy
- the anatomy of birds. —ornithotomist, n. —ornithotomical, adj.
- penisterophily
- Rare. the raising and training of pigeons.
- poultry
- domestic fowl, particularly those raised for food or laying eggs.
- psittacosis
- a disease of parrots and other birds communicable to human beings. —psittacotic, adj.
- pteronophobia
- an abnormal fear of feathers.
- pterylology
- the branch of ornithology that studies the areas upon which birds grow feathers. Also pterylography.
- rookery
- a breeding or nesting place of rooks or of any gregarious bird or animal.
- totipalmation
- the state of having all four toes fully webbed, as water birds. —totipalmate, adj.
- virilescence
- a condition of some animals, and especially of some fowls, in which the female, when old, assumes some of the characteristics of the male of the species. —virilescent, adj.
- volitation
- flight, the act of flying, or the ability to fly.