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noun
- A large flightless parrot, Strigops habroptilus, with greenish plumage, that is nocturnal and native to New Zealand.
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noun
- Nestor notabilis, a bird of New Zealand.
| | kestrel |
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noun
- Any of various small falcons of the genus Falco that hover while hunting.
- The common kestrel.
| | killdeer |
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noun (pl2=killdeer)
- A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
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noun (plural kingfishers)
- Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines, having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.
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noun (wikipedia, King Penguin)
- a large penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus, that lives on the coast of Antarctica and nearby islands
| | Kirtland's warbler |
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noun (wikipedia, Kirtland's Warbler)
- a small songbird, Dendroica kirtlandii, that nests in Michigan, United States and winters in the Bahamas
| | kite |
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noun
- A bird of prey with long wings and weak legs that mostly feeds on carrion and spends long periods soaring.
- A heavier than air object which fly, flies in the air by obtaining lift from wind, and is tethered by a line or a string.
- (context, geometry) A quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair being consecutive.
- (context, slang) An aircraft, or aeroplane.
verb (kit, ing)
- rare: To fly a kite (usually used with go.)
- I'm going kiting this weekend
| | kittiwake |
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noun (plural or kittiwakes)
- Either of two small gulls (Rissa tridactyla or Rissa brevirostris) of the North Atlantic that nest in colonies on sea cliffs and spend the winter on the open ocean.
| | Kiwi |
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proper noun (de-noun-f, plural=Kiwis)
- (colloquial) A New Zealander.
| | knot |
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noun
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- When climbing, it is important to make sure that your knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
- The young mother was brushing knots from her protesting child's hair.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A closed curve that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A difficult situation.
- I got into a when I inadvertently insulted the policeman.
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- Cedric claimed his beat-up old yacht could make 20 knots, if he would just make a few repairs, but we figured he was pulling our leg.
- Either of two species of small wading birds, the red knot (Calidris canutus) and the great knot (Calidris tenuirostris).
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- Jeremy had a on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- (nautical) One nautical mile per hour.
verb (knot, t, ing)
- To form into a knot.
- She knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- She knotted her brow in concentration as she attempted to unravel the tangled strands.
| | kookaburra |
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noun
- Any of several species of kingfishers in the genus Dacelo, known for their laugh-like call.
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