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osprey |
Noun
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large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years |
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obstetrical toad |
Noun
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European toad whose male carries the fertilized eggs wrapped around its hind legs until they hatch |
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olive ridley |
Noun
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olive-colored sea turtle of tropical Pacific and Indian and the southern Atlantic oceans |
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ornithischian |
Noun
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herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird |
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ornithischian dinosaur |
Noun
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herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird |
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ornithopod |
Noun
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bipedal herbivorous dinosaur |
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ornithopod dinosaur |
Noun
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bipedal herbivorous dinosaur |
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ornithomimid |
Noun
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lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes |
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oviraptorid |
Noun
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advanced carnivorous theropod |
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ophidian |
Noun
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limbless scaly elongate reptile |
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ocellated turkey |
Noun
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wild turkey of Central America and northern South America |
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orb-weaving spider |
Noun
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a spider that spins a circular or near circular web |
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orb-weaver |
Noun
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spiders that spin orb webs |
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old squaw |
Noun
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a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States |
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oldwife |
Noun
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a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States |
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oldwife |
Noun
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tropical Atlantic fish |
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oilbird |
Noun
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nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter |
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opossum rat |
Noun
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terrestrial marsupials of southern South America that resemble shrews |
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opossum |
Noun
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nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America |
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opossum |
Noun
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small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails |
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oyster shell |
Noun
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a shell of an oyster |
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otter shrew |
Noun
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amphibious African insectivorous mammal that resembles an otter |
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operculum |
Noun
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a hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted |
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oligochaete |
Noun
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hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body |
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oligochaete worm |
Noun
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hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body |
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oyster |
Noun
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marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell |
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oyster |
Noun
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a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl |
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oyster |
Noun
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edible body of any of numerous oysters |
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oyster |
Verb
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gather oysters, dig oysters |
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ormer |
Noun
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an abalone found near the Channel Islands |
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oyster crab |
Noun
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tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters |
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opossum shrimp |
Noun
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shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs |
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octopod |
Noun
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a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell |
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octopus |
Noun
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bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles |
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octopus |
Noun
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tentacles of octopus prepared as food |
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openbill |
Noun
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stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip |
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ostracod |
Noun
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tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell |
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onychophoran |
Noun
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any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms |
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oystercatcher |
Noun
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black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill |
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oyster catcher |
Noun
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black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill |
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ortygan |
Noun
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any of several East Indian birds |
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orca |
Noun
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predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin |
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oceanic bird |
Noun
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bird of the open seas |
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omnivore |
Noun
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an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances |
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omnivore |
Noun
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a person who eats all kinds of foods |
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otterhound |
Noun
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hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat |
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otter hound |
Noun
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hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat |
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ocelot |
Noun
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nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat |
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ounce |
Noun
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large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur |
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ounce |
Noun
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a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams |