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pit viper |
Noun
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New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head |
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pseudoscorpion |
Noun
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small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion |
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prairie rattlesnake |
Noun
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widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies |
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prairie rattler |
Noun
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widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies |
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python |
Noun
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large Old World boas |
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python |
Noun
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a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit |
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python |
Noun
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a programming language |
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partridge |
Noun
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valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada |
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partridge |
Noun
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a popular North American game bird |
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partridge |
Noun
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small Old World gallinaceous game birds |
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partridge |
Noun
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heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds |
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partridge |
Noun
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flesh of either quail or grouse |
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prehensor |
Noun
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the anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths |
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prairie grouse |
Noun
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brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies |
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prairie fowl |
Noun
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brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies |
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pullet |
Noun
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young hen usually less than a year old |
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pullet |
Noun
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flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying |
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pycnogonid |
Noun
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any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs |
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pentastomid |
Noun
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wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth |
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ptarmigan |
Noun
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large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage |
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poultry |
Noun
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a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl |
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poultry |
Noun
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flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food |
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popinjay |
Noun
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an archaic term for a parrot |
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popinjay |
Noun
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a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) |
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poll parrot |
Noun
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a tame parrot |
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pheasant coucal |
Noun
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Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant |
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pheasant cuckoo |
Noun
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Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant |
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pigeon |
Noun
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wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs |
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pouter pigeon |
Noun
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one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out |
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pouter |
Noun
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one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out |
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pouter |
Noun
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someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression |
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peafowl |
Noun
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very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird |
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peachick |
Noun
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a young peafowl |
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pea-chick |
Noun
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a young peafowl |
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peacock |
Noun
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male peafowl |
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peacock |
Noun
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European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot |
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peahen |
Noun
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female peafowl |
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piping guan |
Noun
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a kind of guan |
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parakeet |
Noun
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any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots |
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parrakeet |
Noun
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any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots |
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parroket |
Noun
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any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots |
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paraquet |
Noun
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any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots |
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paroquet |
Noun
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any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots |
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parroquet |
Noun
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any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots |
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passenger pigeon |
Noun
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gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct |
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painted sandgrouse |
Noun
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sandgrouse of India |
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pin-tailed sandgrouse |
Noun
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sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers |
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pin-tailed grouse |
Noun
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sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers |
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phasianid |
Noun
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a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae |
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pheasant |
Noun
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large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere |