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basilisk |
Noun
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(classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance |
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beaded lizard |
Noun
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lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales |
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blue-belly |
Noun
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common western lizard |
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bone-headed dinosaur |
Noun
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bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
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black rat snake |
Noun
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large harmless shiny black North American snake |
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bull snake |
Noun
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any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
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bull-snake |
Noun
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any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
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brontosaur |
Noun
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huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic |
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brontosaurus |
Noun
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huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic |
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barosaur |
Noun
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a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall |
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barosaurus |
Noun
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a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall |
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blacksnake |
Noun
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blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet |
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blacksnake |
Noun
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large harmless shiny black North American snake |
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bird-footed dinosaur |
Noun
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any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs |
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black racer |
Noun
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blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet |
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blue racer |
Noun
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bluish-green blacksnake found from Ohio to Texas |
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banded sand snake |
Noun
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a sand snake of southwestern United States |
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black-headed snake |
Noun
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small secretive ground-living snake |
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blind snake |
Noun
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wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
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black-necked cobra |
Noun
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aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa |
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boa |
Noun
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any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs |
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boa |
Noun
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a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur |
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boa constrictor |
Noun
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very large boa of tropical America and West Indies |
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banded rattlesnake |
Noun
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widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States |
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book scorpion |
Noun
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minute arachnid sometimes found in old papers |
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black mamba |
Noun
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a highly venomous southern African mamba dreaded because of its quickness and readiness to bite |
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banded krait |
Noun
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sluggish krait banded with black and yellow |
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banded water snake |
Noun
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in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia |
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banded adder |
Noun
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sluggish krait banded with black and yellow |
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beak |
Noun
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informal terms for the nose |
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beak |
Noun
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a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures |
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beak |
Verb
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to hit lightly with a picking motion |
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beak |
Noun
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horny projecting mouth of a bird |
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beak |
Noun
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horny, projecting mouth of animals other than birds, e.g., turtles or squid |
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black widow |
Noun
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venomous New World spider |
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biddy |
Noun
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young bird especially of domestic fowl |
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biddy |
Noun
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adult female chicken |
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brood hen |
Noun
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a domestic hen ready to brood |
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broody hen |
Noun
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a domestic hen ready to brood |
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black-legged tick |
Noun
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parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans |
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black grouse |
Noun
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grouse of which the male is bluish-black |
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blackcock |
Noun
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male black grouse |
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black cock |
Noun
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male black grouse |
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black and gold garden spider |
Noun
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a widely distributed North American garden spider |
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barn spider |
Noun
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an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily |
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black-billed cuckoo |
Noun
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North American cuckoo |
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bobwhite |
Noun
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a popular North American game bird |
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bobwhite quail |
Noun
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a popular North American game bird |
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bird of Juno |
Noun
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very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird |
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band-tailed pigeon |
Noun
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wild pigeon of western North America |