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  2. Bycocket - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] It has a wide brim that is turned up in the back and pointed in the front like a bird's beak. [3] In French, it is called a chapeau à bec due to this resemblance. [1] The hat was originally worn by nobles and royalty, and later by the rising merchant class. [1] [2] [3] It was often decorated with feathers, jewels, or other ornaments.

  3. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...

  4. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Name is of Native origin. Monster may also be Native, but name was given from Native language by local whites & not the original name, if so. Sea goat – Half goat, half fish; Selkie – Shapeshifting seal people; Water bull – Nocturnal amphibious bull

  5. List of hat styles - Wikipedia

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    A wide brimmed hat that is turned up in the back and pointed in the front like a bird's beak. Traditionally associated with the character Robin Hood. [23] Campaign hat: Also known as a "Smokey Bear" hat. A broad-brimmed felt or straw hat with high crown, pinched symmetrically at its four corners (the "Montana crease"). [24] Capirote

  6. List of Guardians of Ga'Hoole characters - Wikipedia

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    The Old High Tyto: the first Pure One's leader. In the books, he is only mentioned, having already been killed by Kludd and Nyra. In the film, he is the main antagonist and first "Metal Beak" (voiced by Joel Edgerton)—a greater sooty owl named Surtr (as revealed in the game only) who is also Ezylryb's arch-enemy: his face was scarred in the War of Ice Claws by the latter, and he wears a ...

  7. Indian robin - Wikipedia

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    Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Motacilla fulicata and cited Brisson's work. [7] The type location was subsequently corrected to Puducherry in southern India. [8] The specific name is from the Latin fulicatus for "dusky" or "black". [9] Calls. The Indian robin was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Saxicoloides.

  8. European robin - Wikipedia

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    The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that belongs to the chat subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family. [3] It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except ...

  9. Bec de corbin - Wikipedia

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    The name is Old French for "raven's beak". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Similar to the Lucerne hammer , it consists of a modified hammer's head and spike mounted atop a long pole. Unlike the Lucerne hammer, the bec de corbin was used primarily with the "beak" or fluke to attack instead of the hammer head.