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any of a class (Aves) of warm-blooded, two-legged, egg-laying vertebrates, having the body more or less completely covered with feathers and the forelimbs modified as wings; a bird.
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any flying insect.
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any of various families (esp. Acrididae) of leaping, plant-eating orthopteran insects with powerful hind legs adapted for jumping; a grass-hopper.
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any of various families of four-winged, chiefly night-flying lepidopteran insects, that is attracted by light; a kind of moth.
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any of a family (Lampyridae) of winged beetles, active at night, whose abdomens usu. glow with a luminescent light; a firefly.
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any of various families of lepidopteran insects active in the daytime, having a sucking mouthpart, slender body, ropelike, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usu. brightly colored, membranous wings; a butterfly.
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the sun.
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a bumble bee.
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a variety of rice.
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an arrow.
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a kind of paper kite.