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noun Aves n. pl. (Zool.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds. Note: Aves, or birds, have a complete double circulation, oviparous, reproduction, front limbs peculiarly modified as wings; and they bear feathers. All existing birds have a horny beak, without teeth; but some Mesozoic fossil birds (Odontornithes) had conical teeth inserted in both jaws. The principal groups are: Carinatae, including all existing flying birds; Ratitae, including the ostrich and allies, the apteryx, and the extinct moas; Odontornithes, or fossil birds with teeth. Note: The ordinary birds are classified largely by the structure of the beak and feet, which are in direct relation to their habits. See Beak, Bird, Odontonithes.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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"Aves" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but at heart she was as pagan as the top of Slievegullion, and along with her favourite Christian oaths (in one of which St. Anthony of Padua was disguised as Saint Antonio Perrier), and her whispered "Aves," she taught Gabrielle enough pagan mythology and folklore to set her head spinning whenever she found herself alone in the ...
— The Tragic Bride • Francis Brett Young
... joined by a squadron of fifteen or more men-of-war from Martinique under command of Count d'Estrees. The united fleet of over thirty vessels sailed for Curacao on 7th May, but on the fourth day following, at about eight o'clock in the evening, was wrecked upon some coral reefs near the Isle d'Aves.[395] As the French pilots had been at odds among themselves as to the exact position of the fleet, the admiral had taken the precaution to send a fire-ship and three buccaneering vessels several miles in advance ...
— The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century • Clarence Henry Haring
... three shillings. Dear Uncle Patsy, I want a whole half-barrel of that same flour and ten pounds of sugar, and I 'll pay it back on Sunday. I sind respects and duty to Aunty Bridget and all friends; this l'aves me in great haste. I wrote me dear mother last night and sint her me first pound, God ...
— The Queen's Twin and Other Stories • Sarah Orne Jewett
... of the vine-tree-syrup. With him he mumbled all his kiriels and dunsical breborions, which he so curiously thumbed and fingered, that there fell not so much as one grain to the ground. As he went from the church, they brought him, upon a dray drawn with oxen, a confused heap of paternosters and aves of St. Claude, every one of them being of the bigness of a hat-block; and thus walking through the cloisters, galleries, or garden, he said more in turning them over than sixteen hermits would have done. Then did he study some paltry half-hour with his eyes fixed upon his book; ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... they took her before we came up. We lost two or three men, and had seven or eight wounded. The prize was a ship of twelve guns and forty men, who had all good small arms; she was laden with sugar and tobacco, and had eight or ten tons of marmalade on board. We went to the Isle of Aves, where the Count d'Estrees's whole squadron, sent to take Curacoa for the French, had been wrecked. Coming in from the eastward, the count fell in on the back of the reef, and fired guns to give warning to the rest. But they, supposing their admiral was engaged with enemies, crowded ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various
... the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes: Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement; Nor do I think the man of safe ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson |
Words linked to "Aves" : order Struthioniformes, ornithology, order Coraciiformes, superorder Ratitae, Colymbiformes, Piciformes, order Aepyorniformes, order Dinornithiformes, Pelecaniformes, Gruiformes, bird, class, Struthioniformes, order Charadriiformes, Podicipitiformes, order Procellariiformes, subphylum Craniata, order Piciformes, order Cuculiformes, Columbiformes, Ciconiiformes, Archaeornithes, Podicipediformes, Apodiformes, order Picariae, Sphenisciformes, class Aves, order Falconiformes, percher, Raptores, order Galliformes, Rheiformes, order Casuariiformes, order Apterygiformes, Falconiformes, Vertebrata, Trogoniformes, Aepyorniformes, Insessores, Caprimulgiformes, order Apodiformes, Craniata, young bird, Galliformes, order Sphenisciformes, Picariae, subphylum Vertebrata, order Caprimulgiformes, order Pelecaniformes, Gaviiformes, order Gaviiformes, order Ciconiiformes, order Trogoniformes, Charadriiformes, order Gruiformes, order Podicipitiformes, order Raptores, Procellariiformes, genus Protoavis, Psittaciformes, order Anseriformes, order Columbiformes, perching bird, Cuculiformes, Ratitae, Passeriformes, Dinornithiformes, order Psittaciformes, order Rheiformes |
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