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Aves

noun
1.
(ornithology) the class of birds.  Synonym: class Aves.






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"Aves" Quotes from Famous Books



... ego Versiculos feci, tulit alter Honores; Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves. Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves. Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes. Sic vos non ...
— Observations on the Florid Song - or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers • Pier Francesco Tosi

... number of old snatches besides, between drunk and sober, but very few Aves or Penitentiaries (you may believe me) were among them. Longest Day set off westward in beautiful crimson and gold—the rest, some in one fashion, some in another; but Valentine and pretty May took their departure together ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... Now all the hubbub is over, suppose you lie still and sleep. My uncle,' as he roamed round her, mourning for his rosary, 'I am afraid your beads are lost; but see here, these little round seeds, I can pierce them if you will gather some more for me, and make you another set. See, these will be the Aves, and here are shells in the grass for ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge

... I stood without movement and had said a credo and three aves, when the Devil dropped the subprior and sprang upon me. With the help of Saint Bernard I clambered over the wall, but not before his teeth had found my leg, and he had torn away the whole back skirt of my gown." As he spoke he turned and gave ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

... chance all the women were seated on the same side, the Countess having two sisters of Mercy for neighbors, wholly occupied in fingering their long rosaries and mumbling Paters and Aves. One of them was old and so deeply pitted with the small-pox that she looked as if she had received a charge of grape shot full in the face; the other was very shadowy and frail, with a pretty unhealthy little face, a narrow phthisical chest, consumed ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant



Words linked to "Aves" :   Struthioniformes, Podicipitiformes, order Charadriiformes, order Anseriformes, Columbiformes, Procellariiformes, order Colymbiformes, ornithology, Insessores, order Procellariiformes, Charadriiformes, genus Protoavis, order Caprimulgiformes, order Coraciiformes, Caprimulgiformes, order Casuariiformes, Aepyorniformes, order Galliformes, Picariae, order Pelecaniformes, Psittaciformes, Craniata, order Podicipediformes, Strigiformes, order Trogoniformes, young bird, order Aepyorniformes, Rheiformes, order Gaviiformes, order Raptores, class, Coraciiformes, Gruiformes, subclass Archaeornithes, Dinornithiformes, order Sphenisciformes, Passeriformes, Falconiformes, Vertebrata, order Passeriformes, order Gruiformes, order Apterygiformes, Podicipediformes, Ratitae, Galliformes, bird, order Cuculiformes, Raptores, Anseriformes, Piciformes, perching bird, order Columbiformes, Pelecaniformes, Casuariiformes, subphylum Craniata, percher, order Rheiformes, order Piciformes, order Psittaciformes, order Apodiformes, order Podicipitiformes, order Struthioniformes, Trogoniformes, subphylum Vertebrata, Cuculiformes, order Ciconiiformes, order Dinornithiformes, Colymbiformes, superorder Ratitae, order Strigiformes, Ciconiiformes, order Insessores, Sphenisciformes, order Falconiformes, order Picariae, Gaviiformes, Apodiformes, Apterygiformes, Archaeornithes



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