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flying bird

n. birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles [syn: carinate, carinate bird] [ant: ratite]

Usage examples of "flying bird".

The gauntlets moved up the shaft, positioning the tip to point at the wildly flying bird.

A lens, properly focused and corrected against aberration, can make all the difference, for a fast-flying bird like a swift, between catching a fly and smashing into a cliff.

From far above came the cry of one of his primitive cousins, a flying bird.

Could it bring a flying bird down from the sky, or raise a fish from the sea, should they happen to traverse the region you affected?

A geometer on a moving canal-boat who tries to measure the speed of a flying bird will get a different number from a geometer on the shore.

He manipulated the levers on the radio control box without taking his eyes from the free-flying bird.

In return, Jass was to guide Kunn to the site where he and Bom first saw the flying bird-thing.

Kunn to the site where he and Bom first saw the flying bird-thing.

Benduka is the bent-sideways girl who walks slowly, but ben-duka is also the name of a fast-flying bird, the swallow with curved wings who darts crookedly quick through trees near the river.

Roland kept expecting it to reach out and grab them, as it had grabbed the low-flying bird when they had been here on the night of the Peddler's Moon.

Now his eyes would water when he tried to look hard at a flying bird or even a running deer.

We heard the small wind in the brush and the far cry of some flying bird.

Normally nothing on the ground was a threat to a flying bird, but an archer with arrows was.

The flying bird hovered not seven feet high, its rider's lance lipping flames like a water pipe.