STYMPHALIAN BIRDS

Meaning of STYMPHALIAN BIRDS in English

/stim fay"lee euhn, -fayl"yeuhn/ , Class. Myth.

a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.

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STYMPHALIAN BIRDS — [Greek heroic] On his fifth labor, Eurystheus sent Heracles to rid the marshes surrounding Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia of an …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
STYMPHALIAN BIRDS — Стимфалийские птицы
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
BIRDS — Mut'imut-tayr: Feeder of the birds.
Advanced Islamic English Dictionary
STYMPHALIAN — (ˈ)stim|fālēən, -lyən adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Greek stymphali os Stymphalian (from Stymphalos Stymphalus, mountain in Arcadia near the lake …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BIRDS — plural of bird present third singular of bird
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BIRDS — Classification: Village Located in: Illinois (IL) Total Population (2000): 51 Total Housing Units (2000): 22 Land Area (square meters): 560562 …
U.S. Gazetteer English vocabulary
BIRDS — See: Sparrow
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
BIRDS — Птицы
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BIRDS — Птицы
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
BIRDS — женская грудь
Subsidiary English-Russian Dictionary
BIRDS — Птицы
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
BIRD
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PICIFORM — order of birds (Piciformes) consisting of six families of arboreal birds: the familiar woodpeckers, their relatives the piculets and wrynecks …
Britannica English vocabulary
PELECANIFORM — order (Pelecaniformes) of relatively large, aquatic birds that share the common characteristic of webbing between all four toes. The three …
Britannica English vocabulary
PASSERIFORM — also called passerine, or perching bird any member of the order Passeriformes, the largest order of birds and the dominant …
Britannica English vocabulary
MIGRATION — in ethology, the regular, usually seasonal, movement of all or part of an animal population to and from a given …
Britannica English vocabulary
GALLIFORM — (order Galliformes), any of the gallinaceous (i.e., fowl-like or chickenlike) birds. The order includes about 240 species, of which the …
Britannica English vocabulary
FALCONIFORM — (order Falconiformes), any of the group of swift, graceful birds known for their predatory, or raptorial, skill. Included are eagles, …
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CUCULIFORM — Cuckoo (Cuculus) (order Cuculiformes), any member of the cosmopolitan group containing two very distinct families, the cuckoos (Cuculidae; see photograph) …
Britannica English vocabulary
CASUARIIFORM — (order Casuariiformes), any of a group of large, flightless birds that includes the cassowary (Casuarius) and the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) …
Britannica English vocabulary
CAPRIMULGIFORM — (order Caprimulgiformes), any member of about 100 species of soft-plumaged birds, the major groups of which are called nightjars, nighthawks, …
Britannica English vocabulary
BIRD — warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, unique in having feathers and forelimbs modified into wings. The dispersal of birds is …
Britannica English vocabulary
YEAR IN REVIEW 2001: LIFE-SCIENCES
Britannica English vocabulary
KORINTHOS — English Corinth noms (department), straddling the junction of southern continental Greece and the Peloponnese. With an area of 884 sq …
Britannica English vocabulary
HERACLES — Greek Herakles, Roman Hercules most famous Greco-Roman legendary hero. Behind his very complicated mythology there was probably a real man, …
Britannica English vocabulary
BIRD
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BIRD — n. 1 a feathered vertebrate with a beak, with two wings and two feet, egg-laying and usu. able to fly. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BIRD — n. 1 a feathered vertebrate with a beak, with two wings and two feet, egg-laying and usu. able to fly. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BIRD — n.1 a feathered vertebrate with a beak, with two wings and two feet, egg-laying and usu. able to fly. 2 …
Oxford English vocab
WITH
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SING — verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bird sings (= makes musical sounds ) ▪ I woke up to hear the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ONE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
NEST — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bird builds a nest ▪ By March many birds have already built nests. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DO
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BIRD — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bird's/eagle's/crow's etc nest ▪ an abandoned bird's nest bird dog bird flu bird of …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LABOUR — n. 25B6; noun manual labour : (HARD) WORK, toil, exertion, industry, drudgery, effort, donkey work, menial work; informal slog, grind, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GREEK HEROIC LEGEND — All the articles available in the Greek heroic legend section of the Encyclopedia Mythica: Abderus; Acamas; Acastus; Acherusia; Achilles; Acrisius; …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
BIRD
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
СТИМФАЛИЙСКИЕ ПТИЦЫ — Stymphalian birds
Русско-Американский Английский словарь

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